Second DTP operation: 17 DTP members are detained

Kurdish Info 14.09.2009-As a result of the operations that were launched across 15 provinces by the Diyarbakır Prosecutor's Office, 17 DTP members and former mayors of the DTP are detained on 10 September. The detained members of DTP include: DTP Diyarbakır City Council member Şehmus Bayhan, Yenişehir Deputy Mayor İhsan Uğur, Kayapınar Deputy Mayor Sabahattin Dinç, Bağlar Deputy Mayor Hacı Erdemir, Bismil former Mayor Şükran Aydın, Bağlar former Mayor Yurdusev Özsökmenler and Diyarbakır Municipality Deputy Secretary-General Hüseyin Bayrak. The suspects were taken to the Diyarbakır Police Department for interrogation. Source: Kurdish info