Former HDP MP Hüda Kaya was taken into custody at Istanbul airport in line with an investigation launched by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office. The 63-year-old politician is being investigated for “taking part in an illegal demonstration" and “resisting state authority and not dispersing despite warnings”.

Hüda Kaya was a member of the HDP in Turkey's parliament from 2015 until this year’s elections in May. The internationally renowned book author and activist for women's and human rights has been in prison several times, and her children have also been arrested. Hüda Kaya's son was arrested and put on trial in 2011 in connection with the PKK. The trial ended with an acquittal. In 2013, Kaya went to Qandil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with her son and spoke to the PKK leadership there. She wrote a series of articles about her impressions and worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper Özgür Gündem. In 2019, her son Muhammed Cihad Cemre was sentenced to fifteen months in prison for "terror propaganda". In July 2022, he was arrested again on alleged terror charges.