Pro-Kurdish MP holed up in Turkey’s parliament for days detained
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HDP lawmaker Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu had stayed in parliament for four nights to protest against stripping of MP status.
Turkish police detained pro-Kurdish lawmaker Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu from his party’s headquarters in parliament, where he had been staying for four nights to protest against the stripping of his MP status over a separate case. The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said Gergerlioglu was in pyjamas and slippers when police seized him early on Sunday just before his morning prayers in Ankara, and released a video and court document detailing the latest charges against the party. Turkey’s third-largest party has faced a years-long crackdown culminating on Wednesday when a top prosecutor moved to shutter it over alleged links to Kurdish fighters – charges the HDP denies as a “political coup”.More Related News