Selahattin Demirtas

A jailed co-chair of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said the arrests of the party's lawmakers were planned by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) "hour by hour around a table."

The arrested co-chair of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said the prosecutors who filed complaints against him have been arrested for being members of the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ), widely believed to have been orchestrated the July 2016 failed coup attempt. 

Even if only one Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP remains in parliament, do not leave, Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned co-chair of the party told HDP lawmaker Mehmet Ali Aslan on Dec. 20. 

In his hearing, Demirtaş connected to prosecutors via a video call, where he demanded the remaining MPs exercise all their legal rights to contribute to the constitutional amendment debate. 

A court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Dec. 13 ordered the arrest of two deputies from the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Selahattin Demirtaş, one of the two jailed co-chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has said he did not insult President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader did by calling the head of state a "thief." 

The co-chair of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is being overtly subjected to torture in prison, a HDP lawmaker has said, commenting on the imprisonment of HDP co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş. 

One of the co-chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has appeared in court for the first time since his capture in early November, saying the courts have no right to take any action regarding him as his authority to represent the public was forcefully taken from him. 

HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş also said his immunity should not be ignored.

No, this piece is not only about the Big Brothers (Abi in Turkish) and Big Sisters (Abla) of the secret network of Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-resident Islamist preacher who is accused of being behind the failed coup of July 15 in Turkey; it is also about the failing justice system in the country.

An arrested co-chair of Turkey's third largest party, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), did not participate in the first hearing of his "terrorism" case after prosecutors refused to share the indictment.

The Diyarbakir court rejected an appeal to the arrest of People's Democratic Party (HDP) Co- chair Selahattin Demirtaş on 14, November against the terrorism charges, reported DPA, according to Dogan News Agency.