The Co-Chair of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), Özlem Gümüştaş and lawyer Sezin Uçar, a member of the Law Office for the Oppressed (EHP), were taken into custody in Istanbul on Tuesday.

Gümüştaş and Uçar were detained at the Courthouse where they appeared to give a statement.

In a social media post, EHB said: “We will continue doing our profession, no matter what. We appeal to our colleagues. This is not an attack against EHB alone, but against the defence profession itself.”

In a statement about the detentions, ESP said that Özlem Gümüştaş and Sezin Uçar were detained after going to the prosecutor’s office to give a statement due to the fabricated accounts of confessor Onur Demir. "Revolutionary socialist politics is a crime to you, and an honour to us," the party said.