The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) said in a statement: "The mass arrests against members of the third-largest party in the Turkish Parliament is an assault on democracy by the increasingly authoritarian Erdogan regime.

The HDP has been experienced numerous attacks from the Erdogan regime in recent years, with at least 16,000 HDP members have been arrested since 2015 and over 5000 of them were sent to prisons. The continuous attack by the Erdogan regime against HDP is an attempt to deny the Turkish people an alternative for a democratic future that will bring meaningful change to the Middle East and Europe."

Solidarity for the HDP also came from the left in Indonesia: “People’s Democratic Party of Indonesia (PRD) strongly condemns the detention of 82 leaders of the Turkish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. There is no reason for the detention other than the manipulative pretext that Erdogan regime always used to carry out anti-democratic actions, both against politicians, journalists, advocates, artists and Turkish people in general. Our concern is that Turkey has become a huge prison for any political expression that does not conform to the wishes of the government.”

From the Philippines, the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM) also condemned the attacks on the HDP.

"The Erdogan regime assisted ISIS in its genocidal rampage across Syria and Iraq and is carrying out ethnic cleansing against Kurds in Rojava, in North Syria and the regime is now seeking revenge against the HDP for the defeat of the ISIS forces by the Kurdish fighters in Kobane," the statement said.

"This is a campaign of assault against the HDP for its struggle in support of the self-determination of the Kurdish people and democratic rights in Turkey. "Release the detained HDP members and all political prisoners in Turkey!"
 

* Peter Boyle is the director of the Green Left Weekly of Australia