[Hurriyet Daily News] A deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was incarceratedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
on charges of "being a member of a terrorist organizations" on April 19 in the eastern Anatolian province of Mus, Dogan News Agency has reported.
Burcu Celik Özkan, a HDP deputy for the province, was detained by police during a routine traffic stop on April 19.
Following a medical examination, she was arrested on charges of being a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and transferred to the E-type closed prison in Mus.
The HDP focuses on the Kurdish issue.
According to the indictment, she was charged due to a speech in Mus before the June 7, 2015, elections that allegedly targeted village guards.
"You will get out of this country. We know well how to turn a Kalashnikov on your after your targeted us," she said, according to the indictment.
A total of 13 politicians from the HDP, including its co-chairs, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, face hundreds of years in jail for alleged links to the PKK.
With the latest arrest order of Özkan, the number of jugged
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HDP deputies has risen to 14.
On April 11, A Turkish court sentenced Yuksekdag to one year in jail on accusations of "making propaganda for a terrorist organization," state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
The 22nd Istanbul Court of Serious Crimes passed the sentence after ruling out any reduction in sentencing for good behavior on the part of Yuksekdag, who was arrested by Turkish authorities in November 2016.