ANKARA - HDP politicians who were processed at the Ankara Provincial Security Directorate are brought to Ankara Courthouse.

 

The 20 people including Peoples' Democratic Party Central Executive Board (MYK) members who were detained in scope of the 'Kobané investigation launched by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office have been brought to Ankara Courthouse. 

 

Police barricaded the enterances to the corridor. Many HDP MPs and attorneys are at the corridor. Police who surrounded the Ankara Courthouse prevent people from entering the courthouse, threatening to detain them. 

 

The detainees are expected to give their statements to the prosecutor.

 

Those detained are: HDP Kars Municipality Co-Mayor Ayhan Bilgen, HDP MYK member Alp Altınörs, HDP Foreign Relations Commission member Nazmi Gür, HDP former Diyarbakır MP Altan Tan, former MP Ayla Akat Aka, BDP former Co-Chair and MP Emine Ayna, İmralı Delegation member Sırrı Süreyya Önder, HDP former MYK members Bircan Yorulmaz, Gülfer Akkaya, Berfin Özgü Köse, Dilek Yağ, Can Memiş, Günay Kubilay, Bülent Parmaksız, Pervin Oduncu, İsmail Şengün and Cihan Erdal, former HDP General Treasurer Zeki Çelik, HDP RTÜK member Ali Ürküt and former deputy Prof. Dr. Emine Beyza Üstün.