BDP European Representative Eyyüp Doru was taken into custody and arrested in Germany on grounds of the warrant of arrest Turkey issued for Doru on Interpol in 2007.

Giving information to ANF about the arrest, the BDP Representative in Europe notified that; “Mr. Doru was arrested on 15 December after his car was stopped by police in Münich city where he was going to appear in the BDP delegation to meet with Diyarbakýr MP Leyla Zana.”

“Our representative Eyyüp Doru is a Kurdish politician who has been living in Europe and never been to Turkey for more than 25 years.” said the BDP Representative in Europe and commented the Interpol’s search as a “situation that cannot be explained within the framework of rules of logic”.

The BDP Representative in Europe said the followings; “The AKP government intends to criminalize our representative who has been legally doing active politics at various institutions and establishments for many years. While the AKP government has turned Turkey into an open prison for Kurds within the scope of so called KCK operations, which has arrested more than five thousand people, the arrest of Mr. Doru is a sign of the intention to close the ways to Kurdish politicians abroad as well and to interrupt our party’s works in Europe.”

Reminding that Doru had been arrested for the same reason in Spain in 2009, the BDP Representative noted that the Spanish courts had concluded that the case was political, not legal.

The Representative condemned the decision of German judiciary and called on German authorities to not to take part in this unlawfulness.