HDP MP Nimetullah Erdoğmuş Detained

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır MP Nimetullah Erdoğmuş was taken into custody in Ankara yesterday (December 15).

On its Twitter account, HDP has declared that party’s Diyarbakır MP Erdoğmuş has been detained due to a summary prepared on ground of a Friday Prayer which he attended.

Fırat News Agency reported that Erdoğmuş was detained on the exit of the parliament.

Detained by Ankara Security Directorate Anti-Terror Bureau Directorate, Erdoğmuş will be sent to court after his proceedings are completed in the directorate, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

HDP İstanbul MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu delivered a message that “Our Diyarbakır MP Nimetullah Erdoğmuş, who was making a speech at the parliament just 10 minutes ago, has been detained! There is no comprehension, no law, just OHAL (State of Emergency)”.

12 of 59 MPs arrested

HDP Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, Şırnak MPs Ferhat Encü, Leyla Birlik, Hakkari MPs Selma Irmak, Abdullah Zeydan, Diyarbakır MPs İdris Baluken, Nursel Aydoğan, Ziya Pir, İmam Taşçıer, Ankara MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Mardin MP Gülser Yıldırım were taken into custody on November 4.

Pir, Taşçıer and Önder were released on probation.

Yüksekdağ, Demirtaş, Baluken, Birlik, Irmak, Aydoğan, Yıldırım, Zeydan and Encü were arrested on the same day.

HDP Hakkari MP Akdoğan was arrested on November 7. 

HDP Group Deputy Chair Çağlar Demirel and HDP Siirt MP Besime Konca were arrested on December 13, which increased the number of arrested HDP MPs to 12.

HDP İstanbul MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu and HDP Muş MP Ahmet Yıldırım were replaced for the arrested group deputy chairs. (BK/TK)