Turkey’s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is weakened yet resolute a year after the detention of a dozen of its lawmakers and a wider crackdown crippled the Kurdish political cause and damaged the European Union candidate's democratic credentials.

Joint leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, along with 11 other parliamentarians from the pro-Kurdish bloc, were arrested in dawn raids on Nov. 4, 2016. The party leaders and seven other HDP lawmakers remain behind bars, and some of their trials on charges ranging from membership in the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to inciting deadly protests have yet to begin.

The party, the parliament’s third-biggest, has seen five of its 59 lawmakers, including Yuksekdag, stripped of their seats in the legislature. The state has seized control of 94 of 102 municipalities from its sister party in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Thousands of party activists are in prison, pro-Kurdish media has been all but silenced and dozens of civil society groups shuttered.

The measures followed an eruption of violence between the PKK and state security forces in 2015 following the collapse of peace talks with the militants. Swaths of cities in the southeast were leveled and nearly 3,000 people were killed, according to the International Crisis Group.