Turkey’s Sanliurfa lawmaker Osman Baydemir and Hakkari lawmaker Selma Irmak lost their seats after the final verdict of legal cases against them was read aloud in the Turkish Parliament, Hurriyet daily reported.
The total number of HDP lawmakers who were stripped of their seats increased to 11.
Irmak was sentenced 10 years in jail for being a member of “an armed terror group” and “spreading terror propaganda.”
Baydemir was also sentenced nearly one and a half years in jail for verbally assaulting a police officer.
The HDP deputies who have lost seats in the Turkish Parliament are Figen Yuksekdag, Nursel Aydogan, Faysal Sariyildiz, Tugba Hezer Ozturk, Besime Konca, Leyla Zana, Fethat Encu, Ibrahim Ayhan, Ahmet Yıldırım, Osman Baydemir, and Selma Irmak.
Back in Feb. 27, HDP lawmakers Ahmet Yildirim and İbrahim Ayhan were stripped of their parliamentary status.
Yildirim was sentenced to one year and two months in prison in June 2017 for “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a speech after the April 2017 referendum.
Reporter’s code: 50101
Turkish Parliament strips statuses of two more Kurdish lawmakers
Two more lawmakers from Turkey pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were stripped of their deputy statuses on April 19.
Turkey’s Sanliurfa lawmaker Osman Baydemir and Hakkari lawmaker Selma Irmak lost their seats after the final verdict of legal cases against them was read aloud in the Turkish Parliament, Hurriyet daily reported.
The total number of HDP lawmakers who were stripped of their seats increased to 11.
Irmak was sentenced 10 years in jail for being a member of “an armed terror group” and “spreading terror propaganda.”
Baydemir was also sentenced nearly one and a half years in jail for verbally assaulting a police officer.
The HDP deputies who have lost seats in the Turkish Parliament are Figen Yuksekdag, Nursel Aydogan, Faysal Sariyildiz, Tugba Hezer Ozturk, Besime Konca, Leyla Zana, Fethat Encu, Ibrahim Ayhan, Ahmet Yıldırım, Osman Baydemir, and Selma Irmak.
Back in Feb. 27, HDP lawmakers Ahmet Yildirim and İbrahim Ayhan were stripped of their parliamentary status.
Yildirim was sentenced to one year and two months in prison in June 2017 for “insulting” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a speech after the April 2017 referendum.
Reporter’s code: 50101
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