On Friday 4 November, the EU expressed its serious concerns about the detention, since the previous evening, of several HDP Members of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. It did, however, defend the agreement it had reached with the country on managing migration flows.
The Turkish authorities arrested several MPs from the HDP – the third biggest party in the Turkish parliament with 59 of the 550 deputies – including its two joint leaders, Selahattin Demirta and Figen Yüksekda. The...