Turkey's Interior Ministry confirmed Nov. 3 that 11 lawmakers with the leftist and Kuridish-led Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP [6]) lawmakers have been detained by police in operations across the country, ostensibly as part of a terrorism investigation. Those detained include HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag. The arrests come as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seizing draconian powers [6] in the wake of July's attempted coup. Hours after the arrests, a bomb attack outside a police station in Diyarbakir [6] left eight dead and over 100 wounded. As in previous recent terror attacks [7] in Turkey, authorities initially blamed the leftist Kurdish guerillas of the PKK [6], but it was subsequently claimed by ISIS. (Kurdish Question [8], Kurdish Question [9], Anadolu Agency [10])
The Turkish Supreme Court immediately approved the 10-month prison sentence given by a local court to Figen Yuksekdag for participating in the funeral of a militant of the outlawed Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP [11]) in 2012. (Kurdish Question [12])
