The pro-Kurdish MP who was arrested in the Turkish parliament is free

Nearly one hundred police officers stormed the Turkish National Assembly building in Ankara at dawn and arrested the pro-Kurdish HDP MP Omer Farouk Gergerlioglou.

Kurdish MP ρmer Farouk Gergerliκεlu was summoned this morning. According to the pro-Kurdish HDP The police did not even allow the MP time to change, accompanying him to the patrol car in pajamas and slippers.. A few hours after the episodic arrest in the Turkish parliament, the MP was released.

As of Wednesday, following the sentencing of the Turkish National Assembly to lift his parliamentary immunity, Gergerlioglu had been in the hall of his party’s parliamentary group as a sign of protest.

The next day, the prosecutor’s office ordered an investigation into allegations that slogans in favor of a terrorist organization were heard in the corridors of Parliament. Gergerlioglu was charged with this charge and not because of the pending verdict against him.

The development provokes further reactions as the trial for the banning of the pro-Kurdish party is underway. Opposition groups called on the United States and the European Union (EU) to work for security in the Middle East, and especially for a two state solution.

Meanwhile, reactions are growing to Erdogan’s decision to withdraw her signature Turkey from the Istanbul Convention on Violence against Women. Women’s demonstrations took place in Ankara and Istanbul yesterday. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who convened an extraordinary parliamentary group of the party, said that international conventions are not rejected by a single signature. In this way, President Erdogan could even annul the Lausanne Treaty.

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