Message from Selahattin Demirtaş, Ahmet Türk

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Visited by Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies Fikri Sağlar, Eren Erdem, Ali Şeker and Orhan Sarıbal, imprisoned Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said that he knew that was going to be arrested 15 days before that.

The other figure whom the delegation met, imprisoned Mardin Co-Mayor Ahmet Türk stated that his only wish is that peace be maintained in the country.

According to a report by Rıfat Başaran from Hürriyet daily, Demirtaş and Türk spoke as follows:

Demirtaş: My legislative activities are being hindered

“I knew of my arrest 15 days before that. I could have gone abroad but I serve time in my country rather than being in somewhere else.

“I explained to my children how they should act when police come.

“I feel uncomfortable with my legislative activities and right of representation being hindered.

“I have to sustain my legislative activities. I prepare motions but they are rejected. This authorization doesn’t belong to prison warden but to Parliamentary Speaker”.

Türk: I am prepared for everything

“They can hang me in Taksim, I am ready to put my signature under it as long as peace is achieved.

“I am prepared for everything as long as the bloodshed stops, children stop being killed”. (EKN/TK)