Police had arrested Kemalbay in Ankara on February 13, two days after she handed over her position as HDP co-chair to a successor.

“Our former co-leader Serpil Kemalbay has been released. Defending peace is not a crime; it is an obligation, an honor!” the party said on its Twitter account.

Kemalbay, who still faces charges and has been placed under judicial control, will have to report regularly to the authorities and cannot leave the country, Agence France-Presse reported, citing an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Kemalbay succeeded Figen Yuksekdag as co-leader in May 2017 after Yuksekdag was stripped of her status as lawmaker in February of the same year.

At a party congress on Feb. 11 Pervin Buldan took over Kemalbay’s job.

Turkish media reported that Kemalbay had been taken into custody over calls for protests against the cross-border operation, dubbed “Operation Olive Branch,” launched on Jan. 20.

The HDP, the third-largest party in parliament, has in recent years been hit by a wave of arrests of its leaders and supporters on accusations of supporting the PKK, which the party denies.

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