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| Turkey pro-Kurdish leaders Demirtas and Yuksekdag detained | 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. | 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 at their respective homes as part of a counter-terrorism inquiry, security sources quoted by Anadolu news agency said. | |
| At least nine other HDP MPs were also taken into custody. | |
| Police searched the party's head offices in central Ankara. | |
| Turkey claims that the HDP has links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a militant group, but the party strongly denies this. | |
| The PKK is deemed a terrorist organisation by the US, the European Union and Turkey. | The PKK is deemed a terrorist organisation by the US, the European Union and Turkey. |
| The HDP entered the Turkish parliament for the first time last year, when it won 59 seats and became the country's third-largest party. | |
| It had done so after at least two people died in explosions at one of its rallies. | |
| But just three months later, against a backdrop of rising violence between Turkish forces and the PKK, a crowd attacked the HDP's offices in Ankara. | |
| The next day, Mr Demirtas accused the ruling party of orchestrating nationalist attacks. | |
| Turkish politicians normally have immunity from prosecution, but this was removed for the HDP earlier this year. |