Turkey police detain co-leaders of main pro-Kurdish party: reports
Thursday, 3 November, 2016 , 23:34
Istanbul, Nov 3, 2016 (AFP) — Turkish police on Friday detained the two co-leaders of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), as part of a major crackdown against the group, reports said.
Selahattin Demirtas was detained at his home in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir while the co-chairperson Figen Yuksekdag was detained in Ankara within the framework of a terror investigation, the Hurriyet newspaper and NTV television said.
