Voltar
-
12/01/2018

Police operation at pro-Kurdish HDP party

epa05617507 Plainclothed Turkish police hold the mouth shut of former Kurdish parliamentarian Sebahat Tuncel (C) as they arrest her during a anti-government protest in Diyarbakir, Turkey, 04 November 2016. Co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish and pro-minority political party Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas were detained, along with at least nine other members of parliament (MPs), as part of a counter-terrorism investigation following a police raid in the HDP party headquarters. The HDP is accused by the Turkish government to have links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group, an accusation HDP strongly denies EPA/STR epa05617507 Plainclothed Turkish police hold the mouth shut of former Kurdish parliamentarian Sebahat Tuncel (C) as they arrest her during a anti-government protest in Diyarbakir, Turkey, 04 November 2016. Co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish and pro-minority political party Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas were detained, along with at least nine other members of parliament (MPs), as part of a counter-terrorism investigation following a police raid in the HDP party headquarters. The HDP is accused by the Turkish government to have links with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group, an accusation HDP strongly denies EPA/STR

Find out more

Receive Conectas updates by email