Turkey arrests two more pro-Kurdish MPs ahead of referendum

‘Turkish authorities have detained two lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the latest move against party members ahead of a referendum on constitutional amendment.
The HDP’s official spokesman Ayhan Bilgen and another lawmaker representing the eastern province of Kars were taken into custody on Tuesday by a court order before a trial following his arrest by police on Sunday at an Ankara airport, after which he was transferred to the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in the country’s southeast, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
According to the report, Bilgen was detained and held on charges of “membership in an armed terror organization.”
The other prominent HDP lawmaker, identified as the party’s legal expert Meral Danis Bestas, was also taken into custody after being initially arrested at her residence in Diyarbakir.’
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