DİYARBAKIR - 14 people, including MEBYA-DER co-chairs, have been detained for 3 days in Diyarbakır. There is a "confidentiality" order on the investigation file. 

 

HDP, DBP and civil society organizations were again targeted in house raids on 27 February.

 

Searches in the MEBYA-DER building lasted seven hours, the association's founding documents, statute, computer and family application forms were seized.

 

Fourteen people were detained as a result of these raids: MEBYA-DER (Association in solidarity with the disappeared) co-chairs Şeyhmus Karadağ and Yüksel Almas, and members and executives Zeki Dağ, Meyrem Soylu, Hatun Aslan and Ayşe Çelikbilek, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) ) Diyarbakır Provincial executive Hatice Güneş, DBP Bağlar District Administrator Tahir Gül, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kayapınar District co-chair Hanım Altındağ, HDP Bağlar District executive Fetullah Işıktaş, HDP Sur District Organization executive Murat Üzgün, HDP Provincial executive Hafiz Işık, Decree Muzaffer Ulaş, the director of MEYA-DER, and Murat Üzgün, former director of HDP Sur.

 

The reason for the detention has not been disclosed as a "confidentiality order" has been placed on the file.