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Turkey arrests parliamentarians from pro-Kurdish party

Eleven members of Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HDP) have been detained over their reluctance to give testimony for crimes linked to "terrorist propaganda".

Police raided the house of co-leader Selahattin Demirtas and the house of co-leader Figen Yuksekdag, arresting the two co-leaders and nine other lawmakers.

Turkey accuses the HDP of having links to the Kurdish militant group PKK, which is considered a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US, and the EU.