Figen Yüksekdağ

Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has called for a "joint struggle" to stop what it called the "elimination of politicians and democratic politics." 
The party released the "Democratic Solution Declaration" with nine articles, featuring "urgent democratic demands."

Speaking at a meeting in Hamburg at the end of the G-20 summit on July 8, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a "terrorist."

"We don't have the authority to release terrorists from jail," Erdoğan said in a press conference, upon a reporter's question regarding "Demirtaş and Kurdish lawmakers."

The jailed co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş, did not attend a hearing of his trial on July 7 after refusing to be handcuffed.

Demirtaş has been kept in a prison in the northwestern province of Edirne since Nov. 4, 2016, and his request to attend the hearing in Ankara was accepted on June 30.

Former co-leader of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ, who was stripped of her status in parliament in February 2017, has been given another prison sentence in two other cases this week.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party elected a new co-leader on Saturday to replace Figen Yuksekdag, who has been in jail on terrorism charges since November and was stripped of her parliamentary status three months ago.

Serpil Kemalbay, who has been serving as acting co-chair since March 12, was elected as Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party HDP's new co-chair on May 20, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

The Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) will hold an extraordinary congress on May 20 to fulfill its legal procedures and elect a new co-chair to replace the jailed Figen Yüksekdağ, who lost her parliament seat in February and party membership in March after being sentenced to 10 months in jail on terror-related charges. 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) will hold an extraordinary congress on May 20 to fulfill the party's legal procedures and elect a new co-chair to replace jailed Figen Yüksekdağ, who lost her seat in parliament after being convicted on terrorism charges. 

A deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was arrested on charges of "being a member of a terrorist organizations" on April 19 in the eastern Anatolian province of Muş, Doğan News Agency has reported.

Burcu Çelik Özkan, a HDP deputy for the province, was detained by police during a routine traffic stop on April 19. 

A significant proportion of the Kurds who previously voted for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will vote "no" in the April 16 referendum on constitutional changes, the jailed co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said.