ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Interior Ministry said authorities detained 11 pro-Kurdish lawmakers, including both party cochairs, as part of ongoing terror-related investigations.

The ministry released a statement Friday listing People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, cochairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, and other party officials.

The ministry said the detention orders were issued by the chief public prosecutors of the southeastern provinces of Diyarbakir, Sirnak, Hakkari, Van, and Bingol.

The government accuses the HDP of being the political arm of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, an accusation the HDP rejects.

Associated Press