CHP deputy Hüseyin Aygün has been released today at 5.30 pm Turkish time. Aygün had been detained by Kurdish guerrillas last Sunday.
In their statement announcing the release, the guerrillas have stated that "The AKP government intended to run a smear campaign against our movement, but the double standard behavior of the Turkish state has once again been exposed. The Speaker of the Parliament Cemil Çiçek who has called the one-day detention of a deputy an act of disrespect of the will of the nation. But the same judgement does not apply to the unfair detention of nine freely and democratically elected deputies held in the state jails" .