Pervin Buldan

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.

Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP and deputy parliament speaker Pervin Buldan was released on Dec. 23 after briefly testifying to a prosecutor in Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

Buldan was detained by the police at her residence in Istanbul in the early hours of the morning.  

Police on Dec. 23 detained Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MP and deputy parliamentary speaker Pervin Buldan in Istanbul, the party announced in its Twitter account. 

Buldan was detained at her residence in Istanbul in the early hours of the morning. 

Buldan also tweeted that she was being detained.

The HDP focuses on the Kurdish issue.

Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman brought together the group deputy chairpersons of all parties at Turkey's parliament on Dec. 13, after fists flew once again at the General Assembly on Dec. 12. 

Along with the heightened tension at parliament meetings, jailed deputies were also on the agenda of the meeting, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

The Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has returned to parliamentary work after boycotting it since Nov. 6, HDP spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen has said, adding that the intra-party discussion over the return is continuing.  

"We are here for now. And we will be here," Bilgen said at the HDP's parliamentary group meeting in the capital Ankara on Nov. 22. 

Lawmakers from Turkey's two opposition parties and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) engaged in a heated debate on Jan. 20 over the latest clashes in the southeastern town of Cizre, which has been under curfew for 39 days.

Lawmakers from Turkey's two opposition parties and ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) engaged in a heated debate on Jan. 20 over the latest clashes in the southeastern town of Cizre, which has been under curfew for 39 days.

Considering the ongoing clashes between the security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, the Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said ending the isolation of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan is an "urgent item on the agenda."

An Istanbul prosecutor objected to the release of six suspects on Oct. 6 in the investigation of the attack on daily Hürriyet columnist Ahmet Hakan.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has condemned police forces for attacks wounding its lawmakers, while suggesting the police forces acted as police of the Justice and Development Party (AKP).