24 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) member MPs issued a written statement in the Council of Europe and demanded the immediate release of arrested HDP MPs.

The statement stressed the need for the release of HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ and CHP’s Enis Berberoğlu and demanded CoE member states monitor the issue and launch an investigation. It also mentioned that both the Venice Commission, Europe’s expert in legal matters, and the PACE Monitoring Commission, which has Turkey in the monitoring process, drew attention to the matter in their most recent report.

The complete list of signatories from 16 countries and 5 political groups is as follows:

NAME COUNTRY GROUP

Ertuğrul KÜRKÇÜ Turkey UEL

Tiny KOX Nederland UEL

Stefan SCHENNACH Austria SOC

Louis LEITE ROMAS Portugal EPP

Serhı KIRAL Ukraine EC

Andrej HUNKO Germany UEL

Ulla SANDBAEK Denmark UEL

Soren SONDERGAARD Denmark UEL

Lotta JOHN FORNARVE Sweden UEL

Annette GROTH Germany UEL

Georgios PSYCHOGIOS Greece UEL

Marco NICOLINI San Marino UEL

Pablo BUSTINDUY Spain UEL

Tineke STRIK Nederland SOC

Petra SUTTER Belgium SOC

Era Lena JONş ON Sweden SOC

Boriana ABERG Sweden EPP

Matjaz HANZEK Slovenia UEL

Jokin BILDARRATZ Spain ALDE

Filiz KERESTECİOĞLU Turkey UEL

Gisela WURM Austria SOC

Damien THIERY Belgium ALDE

Alice Mary HIğINS Ireland SOC

Manuel TORNARE Switzerland SOC

Marcus WIECHEL Sweden SOC