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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdish lawmaker Osman Baydemir was released after being arrested at an Istanbul airport on Sunday stemming from an outstanding warrant related for “terror” charges.Baydemir, the spokesperson of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), was taken into custody in the Ataturk airport's VIP lounge on Saturday while waiting for a 6:45 p.m. flight to Hamburg, Germany, according to Turkey's Hurriyet news.Baydemir was released shortly after being taken to Bakirkoy Courthouse in Istanbul and giving a brief statement.It was not immediately clear why the MP was going to Germany.A Turkish court issued a warrant for his arrest on Thursday after Baydemir failed to attend a hearing of a court in Urfa, southeast Turkey, on charges related to terrorist propaganda stemming from a Newroz, Kurdish new year, event.Turkish authorities have arrested tens of HDP members in the past year. While many have been released after brief periods of detention, some remain in prison one year on, including the party’s two co-chairs, one of whom stepped down from her position after losing her MP status because of her detention.HDP is a pro-Kurdish party that first entered the Turkish parliament in June 2015 after it secured about 13 percent of the vote, three percent higher than the electoral threshold. The party lost 31 seats after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called a snap election when his ruling AKP failed to form the government.The HDP denies links to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group that is fighting a renewed guerilla war against the Turkish government after peace talks stalled in July 2015.