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10 December 2018: Former pro-Kurdish deputies face prisonA Turkish court in the southeastern city of Şırnak on Monday sentenced former pro-Kurdish party deputies Osman Baydemir and Leyla Birlik to 18 months in prison, Turkey-based Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency reported . Birlik and Baydemir, former deputies of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), were found guilty for "violating the law on meetings and demonstrations", Mezopotamya said. The two politicians attended public protests in 2015 when the authorities declared military curfews in the eastern and southeastern cities of Turkey. 24 August 2018:
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20 Feb. 2018 - Seven HDP deputies face criminal charges
 20 Feb. 2018 The charges include “spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation”, “publicly insulting the Turkish nation, military and security forces”, “praising crime and criminals”, and “insulting the president”. The HDP has been under tremendous pressure since it became the first predominantly Kurdish political party to break the ten percent electoral threshold and enter Turkey’s parliament in June 2015, narrowly defending its presence in parliament during the snap elections later that year. A resurgence of violence between Turkish armed forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in July that year led to a crackdown on HDP politicians, many of whom are accused by the government of being linked to the PKK, which has a long history of conflict with Turkish armed forces since it started an insurgency in the 1980s. The indictment against the seven MPs accuses them of praising the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and attending the funerals of PKK members, besides the terrorism propaganda charge. The indicted HDP deputies are Ziya Pir, Leyla Birlik, Nadir Yıldırım, Feleknas Uca, Ahmet Yıldırım, Ertuğrul Kürkçü and Alican Önlü. The Turkish parliament voted to lift immunities from prosecution from members of parliament in May 2016, leading to the arrest of a number of them, including former party co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ. Source |
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Arrested HDP deputy released after months |
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(1) www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-opposition-lawmaker-convicted-for-insulting-president-125178 |
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(2) http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/arrested-hdp-deputy-released-after-months-108151 |
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A lawmaker from opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has received a one-year-and-nine-month prison sentence for “insulting the president,” according to a judicial source.
Seven members of parliament from Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been hit with a list of criminal indictments which includes terror charges, the Turkish news site Diken reports.
Turkey’s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Birlik, who was arrested earlier in the southeastern province of Şırnak was released on Jan. 4, according to judicial sources.
