(4 Nov 2016) Scuffles broke out in Ankara on Friday after Turkish authorities banned a press statement in support of 12 detained legislators from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
Police dispersed the group of protesters and forcibly removed some of them from the scene.
The legislators were detained earlier on Friday over their refusal to testify in ongoing terror-related investigations.
People's Democratic Party co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag were among those being questioned, authorities said.
The detentions occurred in the middle of the night, with co-chair Demirtas describing on Twitter how he was taken into custody: "Police officials are at the door to my house in Diyarbakir with a detention warrant."
State-run Anadolu Agency reported co-chair Yuksekdag was detained in her home in Ankara, while a court in the southeastern city of Bingol ordered Idris Baluken formerly arrested pending a trial.
One of the 12 was released on condition that he regularly report to authorities.
Turkey's Prime Minister Yildirim said on Friday "if those who are elected go hand in hand with terrorism, they of course need to be made to account."
Hundreds of charges were filed against HDP lawmakers following the lifting of immunity, including "disseminating terrorist propaganda" to "membership in an armed terrorist organization."
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