Today two co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish opposition party in Turkey, People’s Democracy (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were detained. Reportedly at least nine other MPs have also been detained. In addition to the arrests Turkish security forces searched the homes of Demirtas and Yuksekdag, as well as the HDP party headquarters in Ankara. Demirtas was detained in Diyarbakir, the largest Kurdish-majority city located in Eastern Turkey. Hours after his arrest there was a car bomb explosion there, inuring 20. Yuksekdag was detained in Ankara.
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