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Immunity bill: Turkish MP’s rain blows on one another

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8 years ago

May 3, 2016

Immunity bill: Turkish MP's rain blows on one another

During talks about lifting members’ immunity from prosecution, Turkish MP’s came to blows and threw water at each other in a second scuffle after a previous meeting on the bill was postponed last week over another fight.

It was a free for all among members of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the People’s Democracy Party (HDP), the pro-Kurdish opposition party.

The bill, championed by the AK Party, would strip members of parliament of their legal immunity but the HDP says the bill is targeting them and is aimed at suppressing dissent.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who founded the AK Party, has called for HDP MPs to face prosecution, accusing them of being an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

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