Figen Yüksekdağ, former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), attended the funeral of her brother, M. Cavit Yüksekdağ, who passed away on Thursday at Adana City Hospital where he had been receiving treatment.
Under extensive security measures, Figen Yüksekdağ was taken by plane from the Kandıra Prison in the northwestern Kocaeli province to the southern province of Adana where her family resides.
Yüksekdağ was first taken to her family’s house in the Namık Kemal neighborhood of the Ceyhan district, where the family received condolence visits before the burial.
The body of Necmi Yüksekdağ was laid to rest in the Gölovası Village Cemetery in the Yumurtalık district of Adana.
DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları and party members also attended the funeral and extended their condolences to the Yüksekdağ family.
After the burial, Figen Yüksekdağ moved to the condolence tent and is expected to be taken back to prison today at 20:00.
Figen Yüksekdağ is the co-founder of the ESP (Socialist Party of the Oppressed) and was its chair until September 2014. After resigning from office, she joined the HDP. In the same year, the ESP joined the HDP, which acted as an umbrella party for several small parties. At the second HDP congress, Figen Yüksekdağ was elected HDP’s co-chair on 22 June 2014.
Together with the other co-chair, Selahattin Demirtaş, and numerous other HDP deputies, she was arrested on 4 November 2016 at the instigation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Since then, she has been held in custody in the Kandıra High Security Prison.
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