Baydemir and Yıldırım from Turkey’s HDP released after a brief detention

Parliamentary group leader of Turkey’s Democratic People’s Party (HDP) Ahmet Yıldırım and HDP’s Urfa MP Osman Baydemir were taken into custody in Diyarbakır earlier today (January 25) while they were attending the court hearing on KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) case.

Enforcing the decision for their ‘forced detention’, police officers took Yıldırım and Baydemir into custody at the courthouse in Diyarbakır and had them taken to another court room in the same building.

After a brief questioning, the two representatives of HDP were released.

HDP’s co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, along with 8 MPs of HDP have been in prison for nearly 3 months on charges of having ‘ties to terror’.

Several other members of HDP have been taken into custody and released after brief interrogations.

Source: https://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/hdp-li-osman-baydemir-ve-ahmet-yildirim-gozaltina-alindi-144482.html