“Buldan is free, a total of 11 lawmakers from our party were detained,” the HDP representative said.
Co-chairs of HDP Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas, as well as over a dozen parliament members were detained in late night raids that were conducted in a number of Turkish cities.
In May, the Turkish parliament voted to strip a hundred of lawmakers of parliamentary immunity. The majority of them represent two main opposition parties, namely the Peoples’ Democratic Party and the left-wing Republican People’s Party.
Pro-Kurdish members of parliament said the law specifically targeted them because of their political views and would lead to deprivation of immunity and prosecution on alleged links to Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK), outlawed in Turkey.
