Many HDP members were arrested in the crackdown that followed the 2016 coup attempt.
Turkish police arrested a pro-Kurdish member of parliament today after photos were published showing him with members of the PKK.
Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced that People’s Democracy Party (HDP) MP Semra Guzel was arrested while traveling in northwestern Turkey in possession of “a fake passport.”
Parliament lifted his immunity after pro-government media released photos of him with armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters.
Turkish authorities consider the HDP a political arm of the PKK and have initiated procedures that could lead to the party being banned. The HDP, for its part, denies that it maintains ties with the PKK, but some of its members have relations with wanted rebels or refuse to condemn their actions.
Many HDP members were arrested in the crackdown that followed the 2016 coup attempt.
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