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Pro-Kurdish HDP decides to halt parliamentary works after arrest of deputies including co-chairs

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The Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has decided to halt all of its parliamentary works following the arrest of nine of its lawmakers, including co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, party spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen announced on Nov. 6. “As a result of discussions we held with our parliamentary group and the central executive board, we have decided to halt our works in the legislature in the face of the most extensive and the darkest attack of our history and meet with our people once again,” Bilgen said after a party meeting in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

He added that the party was not fully withdrawing from parliament and its deputies would remain members, but they would not take part in general assembly sittings or parliamentary commission meetings, Reuters reported.

Bilgen said the HDP would pay visits to every corner of the country in the coming days, listening to complaints and suggestions from the public and holding discussions with NGOs, unions, trade bodies and faith groups.

SOURCE: HURRİYET DAILY NEWS

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