 After the March 2009 election, approximately 50 DTP members were arrested.Between April and August 2009, more than 500 DTP members were taken into custody and 267 were indicted.According to the Turkish Human Rights Association, the government carried out three crackdowns against the DTP between April and October 2009 in which 1,000 people were detained, including 450 who were not told what they were being charged with.