HDP MPs Demirel, Konca Detained

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Group Deputy Chair and Diyarbakır MP Çağlar Demirel and Siirt MP Besime Konca have been taken into custody in Ankara.

Demirel and Konca for whom detention warrants were issued as a part of two separate investigation carried out by Diyarbakır and Batman Chief Public Prosecutor’s Offices were detained by Ankara Security Directorate Anti-Terror Bureau in front of HDP Headquarters.

Konca and Demirel were taken into police station after went through physical examinations.

10 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, and the number of arrested HDP MPs rose to 10. (NV/TK)