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23-Jan-2019 |
3 October 2017 HDP lawmaker loses seat over terror chargesKurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt lawmaker Besime Konca was stripped of her lawmaker status after the definitive court ruling against her was read aloud in the first session of parliament on Oct. 3. The parliamentary speaker’s office read the prime ministerial letter including the court ruling at the parliamentary session in the general assembly, a procedure that legally stripped Konca of her lawmaker status. Konca had been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for “making propaganda for a terrorist organization.” There are more than seven ministerial letters on Konca that enable legal authorities to file an investigation on her amid the lift of legislative immunities. With Konca, the number of HDP deputies stripped of their lawmaker status rose to five, since former co-leader Figen Yüksekdağ and deputies Nursel Aydoğan, Tuğba Hezer Öztürk and Faysal Sarıyıldız had also lost their seats. 4 September 2017 Five MPs in Turkish parliament risk being stripped of statuses in new legislative year Five lawmakers in the Turkish parliament are facing the risk of being stripped of their statuses as members of parliament in the new legislative year, set to kick off on Oct. 1. Court arrests HDP MP Besime Konca on terror chargesA court in the southeastern province of Batman on May 29 ordered the arrest of Kurdish-issue focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt lawmaker Besime Konca on terror charges, Doğan News Agency has reported. Two HDP deputies detained over alleged terror links The HDP’s Diyarbakır deputy and parliamentary group deputy chair, Çağlar Demirel, and its Siirt deputy, Besime Konca, were detained in relation to an ongoing probe in Diyarbakır and Batman. Konca was later released under judicial control. Konca has been probed for her participation in the March 2016 funeral of an outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant and for her speech delivered at the event.
The trial for eight lawmakers started on Sept. 5, as the lawyers of the deputies were present in the court room. The lawmakers, Osman Baydemir, Dirayet Taşdemir, Demirel, Selma Irmak, Ahmet Yıldırım, Besime Konca, Alican Önlü and Nadir Yıldırım, didn’t participate in the hearing, as the court issued a subpoena for the next hearing. |