[APNEWS] Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party, or HDP, refused to leave parliament after he was stripped of his status and immunity as politician on Wednesday. The party said around 100 coppers entered parliament to detain him. Video of his detention showed coppers dragging him away.
His detention came during a tumultuous weekend in which the
The party said Gergerlioglu was detained as he was performing his ablutions for morning prayers.
"The police insisted on detaining him, and took him away in his pajamas and slippers," the HDP said in a statement.
A statement by the prosecutor’s office, quoted by official Anadolu news agency, said Gergerlioglu was detained for not leaving parliament despite losing his status as politician and for slogans chanted by some people during a protest in parliament Wednesday praising the enjugged
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leader of a Kurdish murderous Moslem group.
Gergerlioglu, speaking on Periscope after his release, described being forced out of parliament by police detaining him and irregularities during his police statement.
"They fabricated a crime to get me out of parliament," he said.
Gergerlioglu, the former head of an Islamist human rights
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association, has exposed several human rights violations
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, including alleged illegal strip-searches of detainees by police. He trained and worked as a pulmonologist but was fired through an emergency decree. He advocated for the tens of thousands of other civil servants who were purged in the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt.