ANKARA, June 5 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's three opposition deputies were arrested on early Friday after their parliament statues were revoked.
Leyla Guven and Musa Farisogullari from Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Enis Berberoglu from Republican People's Party (CHP) were stripped of their seats in the parliament on Thursday after the final verdict from the Supreme Court of Appeals over their cases.
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has 291 deputies in the 600-seat assembly, while the CHP now has 138 seats, keeping it the main opposition party in Turkey, and the HDP has 58 seats.
Berberoglu was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2017 on espionage charges of leaking footage to a journalist showing Turkish intelligence trucks being stopped en route to Syria in January 2014.
He was released from prison after 15-month imprisonment and re-elected for the parliament in the 2018 elections.
Guven was released from prison in January 2019 after an 11-week hunger strike. She was accused of "conducting terror activities" following her statements and social media posts on Turkey's "Operation Olive Branch" launched against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units in northwestern Syria.
Farisogullari was sentenced to nine years in prison for being in the Kurdish Communities Union which is accused of being affiliated to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Enditem
