BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Istanbul deputy, Sebahat Tuncel, has been sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison by an Ýstanbul court on charges of membership of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The court has also issued an international travel ban for the deputy.

Sebahat Tuncel was jailed for membership of the PKK and was released after being elected as a deputy for Parliament in 2007.