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| The Grand Turk |
| Turkey Kurdish Leader Says 'Not Afraid' of Trial |
| 2016-06-06 |
| [An Nahar] The co-leader of ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said on Sunday he was "not afraid" of being put on trial after parliament scrapped the immunity of dozens of MPs in a hugely controversial move. Selahattin Demirtas and the HDP co-leader Figen Yuksekdag and dozens of other party MPs risk being put on trial and even tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on accusations of alleged support for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). "We are are not afraid of being put on trial," Demirtas said at a party rally in Istanbul. "But we have the right to wait so that the judicial authority that judges us is a true judicial authority." He added: "We are being sent before a tribunal to extract a political Dire Revenge." Prosecutors have already opened criminal investigations against Demirtas and Yuksekdag over calls for demonstrations in 2014 that turned violent. Until now, their immunity prevented them from being charged. Sunday's rally passed off largely peacefully although police detained several participants for brandishing banners supporting the PKK and tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! leader Abdullah Ocalan, an AFP photographer said. |
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