Turkey stops European MPs from visiting pro-Kurdish HDP head

‘Turkish authorities have not allowed a group of national European legislators and members of the European Parliament to visit the chairman of the left-wing and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), who has been held in prison for nearly a month.
Dozen members of the Party of European Socialists (PES) together with national lawmakers from Sweden, France and Austria sought to visit Selahattin Demirtas at the maximum security prison in northwestern Turkish city of Edirne on Monday, but Turkish gendarmes blocked the approach road to the detention facility and did not let them move forward.
The European parliamentarians subsequently decided to convene an unplanned press conference in the street.’
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