Seventeen lawyers detained during house raids in Diyarbakır

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Seventeen lawyers have been detained during house raids in the Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Diyarbakır as part of an investigation against the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), Mesopotamia Agency (MA) reported.

The police searched lawyers' homes and confiscated computers, books and digital materials, according to the report.

Over the past few months, dozens of politicians, teachers and lawyers were detained in "terrorism-related" investigations against the DTK, an organization that promotes "democratic autonomy" for the solution of the Kurdish question.

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The lawyers were detained because their names were mentioned in some documents that were previously seized during operations against the DTK, Diyarbakır Bar Association Chair Cihan Aydın said on Twitter.

Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) Co-Chair Bünyamin Şeker was also among the detained, said the MA report.

The detained lawyers were taken to the anti-terror branch of the Diyarbakır Security Directorate.

Here are the names of the lawyers: Bünyamin Şeker, Abdulkadir Güleç, Eshat Aktaç, Serdar Talay, İmran Gökdere, Diyar Çetedir, Serdar Özer, Feride Laçin, Gevriye Atlı, Resul Tamur, Cemile Turhallı Balsak, Ahmet Kalpak, Devrim Barış Baran, Neşet Girasun, Sedat Aydın, Şivan Cemil Özen ve Haknas Sadak. (TP/VK)