Turkey - Turkish police arrested dozens of members of parliament from the pro-Kurdish Democratic People's Party (HDP), Friday (4/11). After two HDP leaders were arrested, there was a bomb blast that killed eight people. Allegedly, the culprit is the Kurdish militant group. Two leaders of the Democratic People's Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, was arrested on charges involving terrorist acts associated with a failed coup on July 15 last.
The state news agency Anadolu reported Demirtas was arrested at his home in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, while Yuksekdag in Ankara City arrested in the investigation against the perpetrators of acts of terrorism.
Source: Media Indonesia, November 5th 2016, page 9th
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Selahattin Demirtaş, co-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP, Turkey’s third largest party, was arrested at his home in Ankara. Photograph: Reuters. Source: The Guardian |
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