Nursel Aydoğan

Imprisoned former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Figen Yüksekdağ, currently in prison on terror-related charges, is facing a sentence of 10 years in jail over "terrorist propaganda" and "defaming the Turkish Republic." 

The Turkish parliament has stripped of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Nursel Aydoğan of her status as a member of parliament, after a Prime Ministry motion read at the start of a parliamentary session on May 9. 

Two jailed lawmakers from the opposition People's Democratic Party (HDP) were released by the courts in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on April 21. 

HDP Diyarbakır deputy Nursel Aydoğan and Meral Danış Beştaş, another lawmaker from the southern province of Adana, are being tried over terror charges. 

A court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on April 21 released from jail Nursel Aydoğan, a lawmaker from the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

The Diyarbakır Fourth Heavy Penal Court ruled for the release of HDP Diyarbakır deputy Aydoğan on condition of judicial control. 

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.

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).

Eleven lawmakers from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) have been detained for failing to appear in response to summons by prosecutors asking for testimony in a terrorism propaganda case, a government office said in a written statement early Nov 4. 

Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, the co-leaders of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and 10 lawmakers from the party were detained early on Nov. 4 in a move that threatens further instability for the country.