Turkish parliament strips pro-Kurdish opposition party leader of lawmaking status

‘The Turkish parliament has removed Figen Yuksekdag, the co-leader of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), from her status as a legislator, three months after security forces detained the lawmaker as part of a “counter-terrorism investigation.”
The country’s state-run Anadolu news agency, citing an official announcement made on the parliament’s website, shared the news on Tuesday, adding that the removal came after the parliament received an official message from Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s office earlier in the day, requesting the move.
According to the message, read out by the deputy speaker in the plenary session, a top court had upheld a guilty verdict against Yuksekdag on “terror charges,” and hence she must be stripped of her status as a lawmaker in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.’
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