HDP Diyarbakır Provincial Co-Chairs arrested

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  • 17:04 30 October 2020
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DİYARBAKIR - HDP Diyarbakır Provincial Co-chairs Hülya Alökmen Uyanık and Zeyyat Ceylan were arrested.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır Provincial Co-Chairs Hülya Alökmen Uyanık and Zeyyat Ceylan and Yenişehir District Co-Chairs Remziye Sızıcı and Kasım Kaya, who were detained after a police raid on their party buildings on October 22 as part of an investigation carried out by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office,  was referred to court after 8 days of detention.
 
HDP Co-Chairs are accused of printing the poster of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, which was hung on a couple of walls in the Sur district of Diyarbakır.District co-chairs  Sızıcı ve Kaya were referred to court with request of judicial control measures, while provincial co-chairs Hülya Alökmen Uyanık ve Zeyyat Ceylan were referred to court with a request of arrest. 
 
Provincial Co-Chairs Alökmen and Ceylan were arrested with the accusation of 'being a member of a terrorist organization' while Sızıcı and Kaya were released with judicial control measures.