Twenty members were detained in Istanbul, including HDP’s provincial head Aysel Guzel as well as district-level party heads, a police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said.
In a separate operation, 17 more HDP members, including the party's Ankara provincial head, Ibrahim Binici, and other district-level heads were also detained in the capital, another police source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said.
The arrests came after Saturday evening's deadly blasts in Istanbul left at least 39 dead and 155 others wounded. At around 10.30 p.m., a car bomb went off outside a football stadium in the city's Besiktas district, two hours after the end of a Turkish league football match between Besiktas and Bursaspor. Seconds later, a suicide bomb attack occurred in Macka Park in the same neighborhood. The suicide bomber blew himself up after police noticed him, according to the interior minister.