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Turkish Police Release Deputy Parliament Speaker After Questioning

© REUTERS / Umit BektasTurkish police secure the area near an art gallery where the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot, in Ankara, Turkey, December 19, 2016
Turkish police secure the area near an art gallery where the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot, in Ankara, Turkey, December 19, 2016 - Sputnik International
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Turkish police released the deputy speaker of the country’s parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Pervin Buldan, following questioning, the party said Friday.

Turkish police secure the area near an art gallery where the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot in Ankara, Turkey, December 19, 2016 - Sputnik International
Turkish Police Detain Deputy Parliament Speaker - Party
ANKARA (Sputnik) — Earlier this month, Turkish law enforcers detained 118 HDP members following the December 10 attack in Istanbul carried out by the Kurdish radical group Kurdistan Freedom Falcons. On Saturday, HDP offices across the country have been attacked.

"Deputy speaker of the Turkish Parliament Pervin Buldan, who was illegally detained at her home in Istanbul this morning, was released after being questioned," the party representative told RIA Novosti.

Tensions between Ankara and Turkish Kurds escalated in July 2015 when a ceasefire between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) collapsed over a series of terrorist attacks, allegedly committed by PKK members.

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