DEM Party MPs demand Demirtaş's release after visiting Edirne prison

Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar visited Selahattin Demirtaş, a former co-chair of the HDP, and Selçuk Mızraklı, a former mayor of Diyarbakır, on 15 August, and said afterwards that their friends should not be deprived of their freedom "even for an hour" longer. The two have acted as intermediaries between Ankara and the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, and met Erdoğan on 13 August. The initiative gained its legal framework when parliament passed a twelve-article law on national solidarity and strengthening social integration on 10 August, by 467 votes to 87 with seven abstentions.

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