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Turrkish security forces detained co-chairs of the pro-PKK Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ early Friday for refusing to bear testimony under the scope of ongoing terror probes.
The forces detained co-chairs in in southeastern Diyarbakır province and capital Ankara.
According to reports, HDP deputies failed to bear testimony after they were called by the prosecutors in Diyarbakır, Hakkar, Van, Şırnak and Bingöl provinces.
Other deputies, including the chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli testified when they were called by the prosecutor over summary of proceedings following the lifting of parliamentary immunity.
In a tweet, Demirtaş said that the police is at the door of his residence in southeastern Diyarbakır province.
Seven other HDP deputies have also been reportedly detained.
The HDP has come under fire for its close links to the PKK. Members of the party have so far declined to call the PKK a "terrorist group," attended the PKK militants' funerals, two of whom were the suicide bombers that killed tens of civilians in multiple bombings in Ankara.
The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU and resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015, after breaking a ceasefire agreement with Ankara that had been in force for roughly two years. Since then, PKK terrorist attacks have killed more than 600 security personnel and claimed the lives of many civilians, including women and children, while more than 7,000 PKK terrorists were killed in army operations
http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-te...as-yuksekdag-detained-for-refusing-to-testify
For our European friends whom will cry a lot about this development....
