Police detained 52 HDP members on Nov. 13 in advance of the party’s congress in the southeastern city of Gaziantep, including co-chairs of the party, Ahval News Agency reported.
Some 25 of the detainees were arrested and 10 were released on probation, according to Mezopotamya news agency.
Ankara has intensified a crackdown on the Kurdish political movement since peace talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) broke down in 2015. HDP lawmakers and mayors have frequently been dismissed from their roles or faced legal charges for alleged PKK links in the years since.
The party’s former co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yuksekdag were arrested on terror charges in 2016.
A total of 24 HDP mayors have been dismissed over terror charges and replaced with a government appointee since the local elections in March.
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<p style="text-align:left">Turkish authorities have arrested 10 pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) members after a Turkish prosecutor objected to the ruling of release on probation, Mezopotamya news agency reported on Saturday.
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