“We will not give up” – Garo Paylan on arrests of lawmakers in Turkey

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS. Garo Paylan – Armenian lawmaker and member of Turkey’s People’s Democratic Party issued an announcement on the arrests of his fellow lawmakers. Paylan said they will continue the struggle.

“We will not give up neither in prison, nor outside”, Paylan posted on Facebook.

Turkey detained two co-leaders and nine other lawmakers of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) early on Friday.

The Turkish Interior Ministry said detention orders for 13 MPs were issued, but only 11 were detained as two lawmakers were abroad. Lawyers had earlier said 15 MPs were detained.

Turkish police raided the Ankara house of co-leader Selahattin Demirtas and the house of co-leader Figen Yuksekdag in Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, the party's lawyers told Reuters.