Turkish court releases pro-Kurdish HDP lawmaker

Beştaş was remanded in custody in January for "being a member of an armed terrorist organisation"
Saturday, 22 April 2017 16:54

A court in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir province released on Friday pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party's (HDP) lawmaker Meral Danış Beştaş, who had been detained on terror charges, pending trial.

Beştaş was remanded in custody in January for "being a member of an armed terrorist organisation" as part of a terror probe by Diyarbakır’s Prosecutor's Office.

The party's co-chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş were arrested in November 2016.