İdris Baluken

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has stressed that it the right to vote "no" in the upcoming referendum, which will decide whether Turkey's current parliamentary system should be shifted to an executive presidency.

Venice Commission, which is the constitutional consultative body of the Council of Europe, is visiting Turkey to investigate the current embattled state of media freedom under the ongoing state of emergency.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers separately late on Feb. 3. 

A Diyarbakır court accepted indictments on Jan. 31 against opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, charging them with multiple counts of terrorism. 

A Diyarbakır Court of Serious Crimes will try Demirtaş on seven counts, two of which are related to terror, with a prosecutor demanding 142 years in jail for the co-chair.  

Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said the detention and arrest of many HDP members could be part of a government plan to block and stigmatize the party's activities ahead of the referendum on shifting Turkey to an executive presidential system. 

A Diyarbakır court on Jan. 30 ordered the release of İdris Baluken, the deputy group chairman and lawmaker of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) from Diyarbakır, after nearly three months in jail. 

Jailed Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was acquitted on Jan. 19 of charges of "carrying out terror propaganda" in a speech delivered in the southeastern province of Mardin last year amid a curfew in another southeastern town. 

The co-chairmen of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) are threatened by life sentences if the court confirms the verdicts demanded by the Prosecutor's Office, reported BGNES.

The leaders of the pro-Kurdish opposition party are being held in two separate prisons and investigated on terrorism charges by magistrates in Diyarbakır.

Police on Dec. 26 detained Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy head, Aysel Tuğluk, in Ankara, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Tuğluk was detained early in the morning by counter-terrorism police as part of an investigation launched by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, the agency said.

More than 1,500 people were taken into custody over the last six months on charges of promoting terrorism on social media, the Turkish Interior Ministry said in a statement on Dec. 24.