Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Youth Assembly spokesperson and Central Executive Board (MYK) member Rohat Güvercin was taken into custody after returning to Turkey from abroad, where he had gone as part of his diplomatic work.

Güvercin was detained at Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul, said the DEM Party in a statement, adding: "We call on the government to immediately end these arbitrary and unlawful attacks on our Youth Assembly, our party’s authorized bodies and our politics."