Turkey’s parliament stripped prominent pro-Kurdish lawmaker Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu of his MP status on Wednesday, a month after his conviction for spreading terrorist propaganda was upheld, sustaining a long-running crackdown on his party.
His Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the parliament’s third-largest, has seen many of its lawmakers, mayors, and officials arrested, jailed, and unseated in recent years. Nationalist calls are growing to ban it over alleged militant links.
Reuters
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