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Turkey pro-Kurdish leaders Demirtas and Yuksekdag detained | |
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The two co-leaders of Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP opposition party have been detained along with other MPs, officials say. | |
Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were detained as part of a counter-terrorism inquiry, security sources quoted by Anadolu news agency said. | |
Mr Demirtas was detained at his home in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir while Ms Yuksekdag was taken into custody in Ankara. | |
Nine other HDP MPs were also held. | |
Turkey claims that the HDP has links to the PKK Kurdish militant group, but the party strongly denies this. | |
The PKK is deemed a terrorist organisation by the US, the European Union and Turkey. |