İdris Baluken

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.

Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş suffered a heart spasm in jail on Dec. 10, HDP lawmaker Ayhan Bilgen said on Dec. 12 at the party's Central Executive Board meeting.

Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar visited arrested party deputies, including HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, on Dec. 3 and 4. 

The visits came after the Turkish Justice Ministry's 1,5-month ban on visits to arrested deputies of the party was lifted. 

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) will apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) if all legal avenues are exhausted in Turkey regarding their arrested deputies.

The Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) held its first parliamentary group meeting in the absence of its co-chairs and eight deputies on Nov. 8, after they were arrested last week on terror charges.

The Interior Ministry has filed a criminal complaint against lawmakers from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on allegations that it used the disappearance of local politician Hurşit Külter, who surfaced in Kirkuk following months of questions about his fate, as a tool of propaganda.

Nine lawmakers from Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), including its co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, were arrested on Nov. 4 in a probe that was launched against 14 of the party's lawmakers over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Eight lawmakers from Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), including its co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, were arrested on Nov. 4 in a probe that was launched against 14 of the party's lawmakers over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

European Union envoys in Ankara met on Nov. 4, under the head of the EU delegation to Turkey, over People's Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs, lawmakers are detained as part of "terrorism" investigations.

The ambassadors of EU member states are believed to be discussing a joint stance against the detentions, which they fear threaten further instability for the country.

Five lawmakers from the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), including its co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, were arrested on Nov. 4. The probes were launched over the lawmakers' alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).