HDP MP Leyla Zana detained in Turkey's Diyarbakır

Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı deputy Leyla Zana was detained on Feb. 8 in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Zana had served 10 years in prison for speaking Kurdish while taking her parliamentary oath in 1991. She was ultimately released in 2004 and once again became an MP after the June 2011 elections.