Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers leave from a park after a party meeting in Diyarbakir, Turkey, July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's pro-Kurdish parliamentary opposition launched three months of protests on Tuesday against a state crackdown which has seen dozens of lawmakers and mayors jailed over suspected links to militant separatists.
Hundreds of police, backed by armoured vehicles and water cannon, imposed tight security at a park where 10 lawmakers of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) gathered in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country.
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