HDP Vice Co-Chair Aysel Tuğluk, Other 2 Politicans Detained

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Vice Co-Chair Aysel Tuğluk has been taken into custody.

Alongside Tuğluk, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Vice Co-Chair Seydi Fırat and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) former council member Edip Yaşar were detained during a house raid in Diyarbakır. 

It is stated that Tuğluk, detained in Ankara, was taken into custody as part of a probe carried out by Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

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. (EKN/TK)