Baku, Azerbaijan, March 17
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demands that the country's parliament lift the immunity of five MPs from the oppositional Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), TRT Haber news channel reported March 17.
The news channel, however, didn't disclose the names of those MPs.
"There is no place in the Turkish parliament for those who support the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party] terrorists," said Erdogan.
After the Feb. 17 terrorist attack in Ankara, some MPs from the HDP took part in the funerals of the suicide bomber, who carried out the attack.
On March 13, a car bomb exploded in Ankara, near a crowded bus stop. The explosion killed 37 people, while 125 more got injured.
It was earlier reported that five MPs from the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey may be deprived of immunity.
The MPs, whose names were undisclosed, may be deprived of immunity for having ties with the terrorist organization Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
In December 2015, Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu criticized the policy of the Peoples' Democratic Party and accused its members of having ties with the PKK.
PKK's attacks on military units and police stations in the south-eastern Turkey have become more frequent in recent months. During 2015, more than 200 soldiers were killed in Turkey in the clashes with the PKK.
The conflict between Turkey and the PKK, which demands the creation of an independent Kurdish state, has continued for over 25 years and claimed more than 40,000 lives. PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by the UN and the European Union.
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