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Turkish Police Detain Senior Pro-Kurdish Party Lawmaker

  • December, 23, 2016 - 13:24
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Turkish Police Detain Senior Pro-Kurdish Party Lawmaker

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkey's pro-Kurdish party said police have detained a deputy speaker of parliament, Pervin Buldan, using recent legislation that strips lawmakers of immunity.

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Ayhan Bilgen, spokesman for the Peoples' Democratic Party, HDP, told The Associated Press that Buldan was taken away for questioning from her home in Istanbul early on Friday.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said she was detained over an on-going investigation into her activities.

Turkey's government accuses the HDP, the nation's third-largest party, of links to the outlawed Kurdish rebels - an accusation the party rejects.

In May, parliament voted to strip lawmakers of their legal immunity, paving the way for the HDP legislators' arrests.

A total of 12 HDP legislators have been jailed on terrorism-related charges since then, including co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag.

 
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