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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Dersim MP Alican Önlü has been detained.
The HDP announced that the plane which Önlü boarded returned to Esenboğa airport a while after taking off, and Önlü was taken into custody at Esenboğa Airport in Ankara.
Diyarbakır 2nd Heavy Penal Court had ruled eight HDP MPs, who are tried as part of KCK main trial, including Önal be brought to court by force.
12 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.
HDP Group Deputy Chair Çağlar Demirel and HDP Siirt MP Besime Konca were arrested on December 13, which increased the number of arrested HDP MPs to 12. (BK/TK)
