HDP Urfa MP Ayhan Released Following Prosecution Questioning

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Urfa MP İbrahim Ayhan has been detained at Urfa Airport. Ayhan has been released following the prosecution questioning.

A detention warrant was issued for Ayhan as part of an investigation launched due to a speech he made in Turkey’s southeastern Şırnak province.

The detention warrant was issued on the grounds that Ayhan didn't attend the third hearing of a trial in which he is tried over a post he shared on his social media account, according to DİHABER.

About İbrahim Ayhan

Born in Urfa’s Siverek district on February 10, 1968, İbrahim Ayhan graduated from Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Agriculture. He served as teacher. He speaks English and Kurdish. Ayhan is married with two children.

He was detained with 27 then Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) members in a police operation launched within the scope of Kurdistan Communities’ Union (KCK) investigation in Urfa on October 1, 2010. Nine of them were arrested on October 4, 2010 upon a witness’ statement that “They would have sent me to the rural area”.

He was elected BDP Urfa MP on June 12, 2011 elections as he was imprisoned. He was released on January 3, 2014. On November 1, 2015, he entered the parliament as HDP Urfa MP.

A detention warrant was issued for him by Şanlıurfa 5th Heavy Penal Court on February 1, 2017.

13 HDP MPs are imprisoned

13 HDP MPs are behind bars, and the party’s Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ has been relieved of her MP duties.

CLICK-THE STATUS OF HDP MPs UP TO DATE

(AS/TK)