Another lawmaker of pro-Kurdish party arrested in Turkey

YEREVAN, JANUARY 30, ARMENPRESS. Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party lawmaker Nadir Yildirim has been arrested, Milliyet reports.

The arrest took place while he was taking part in the court proceedings of another arrested MP of the party Idris Baluken.

The Turkish media do not specify over which case the arrest happened.

11 out of 59 MPs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party are arrested. They are accused of “being a member of the armed terrorist group, provoking to commit a crime and carrying out propaganda of terrorist group”.