Detained HDP MP Besime Konca Released

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Detained last night in Ankara, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt MP Besime Konca has been released on probation.

Demirel and Konca for whom detention warrants were issued as a part of two separate investigation carried out by Diyarbakır and Batman Chief Public Prosecutor’s Offices were detained by Ankara Security Directorate Anti-Terror Bureau in front of HDP Headquarters.

Warrants of forcefully bringing eight Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs to court were issued.

One of the eight MPs is Selma Irmak, who is still under arrest.

The two were Çağlar Demirli and Besime Konca, who were detained yesterday.

The other MPs are Osman Baydemir, Dirayet Taşdemir, Ahmet Yıldırım, Alican Önlü and Nadir Yıldırım.

Who is Besime Konca?

Born in Maraş in 1970, she graduated from Samsun 19 Mayıs high school. She stayed in prison over political crimes between 1993 and 2004 for 11 years. She was arrested as part of KCK Main Case Operations in 2009, and released in 2014.

She worked at Free Women Congress Foundation for some time.

Konca was elected HDP Siirt MP in 2015.

10 MPs arrested

HDP Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, Şırnak MPs Ferhat Encü, Leyla Birlik, Hakkari MPs Selma Irmak, Abdullah Zeydan, Diyarbakır MPs İdris Baluken, Nursel Aydoğan, Ziya Pir, İmam Taşçıer, Ankara MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Mardin MP Gülser Yıldırım were taken into custody on November 4.

Pir, Taşçıer and Önder were released on probation.

Yüksekdağ, Demirtaş, Baluken, Birlik, Irmak, Aydoğan, Yıldırım, Zeydan and Encü were arrested on the same day.

HDP Hakkari MP Akdoğan was arrested on November 7, and the number of arrested HDP MPs rose to 10. (NV/TK)