Turkish police detained the leaders of the Pro-Kurdish opposition

Demirtas

In Turkey, arrested two co-chair of the largest opposition Pro-Kurdish democracy Party of the peoples (HDP), and also six deputies from her. About it RIA Novosti said the representative of the party.

According to him, in the night of Friday, November 4, police arrested the co-Chairman of the party, Figen of Ukedag, the storming of the house broke down the door. Half an hour later was arrested Demirtas.

Demirtas wrote in his Twitter: “Behind the door of my house is the police are probably going to detain me”.

It is unclear which city this happened. From Demirtaş to buy a house in Ankara and the unofficial Kurdish “capital” of Diyarbakir.

Almost simultaneously with the co-chairs was arrested 14 members of the Turkish Parliament from the HDP, including the Zia, PIR, Gulser Yildirim and Deputy co-chair Sirri party Sureya Onder. Among the detained Deputy speaker of the Turkish Parliament Pervin Buldan.

According to the representative of the party, detentions are held simultaneously in different cities, Ankara, diyarbakır, Mardin.

Pro-Kurdish politicians have accused the Turkish authorities of that territory of Syria and Iraq it has been fighting with Kurdish forces, not the terrorist group “Islamic state”. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in turn, criticized the HDP for communication with the armed groups of Kurds.

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