ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities detained the spokesman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for insulting police on Friday, a party lawmaker said, the latest detention of a high-profile politician from the Kurdish-rooted opposition.
Osman Baydemir, 46, served as mayor of Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest mainly Kurdish city, for ten years before being elected to the Turkish parliament in 2014. In addition to representing the southeastern province of Sanliurfa in parliament, he also serves as the HDP's national spokesman.