Erdogan kan nu arrestere sine modstandere i det tyrkiske parlament

Turkey's parliament on Friday approved stripping its members of immunity from prosecution

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21/05/2016

Turkey's parliament on Friday approved stripping its members of immunity from prosecution.

Erdogan has accused the pro-Kurdish HDP, parliament's third-biggest party, of being the political wing of militants who have waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast, and wants to see them prosecuted. The HDP denies such links and says its parliamentary presence could be all but wiped out if prosecutions go ahead.

"They will have to arrest us, take us by force. We will resort to all possible measures to challenge the decision, including taking it to the constitutional court," the party's co-leader Selahattin Demirtas told reporters outside parliament.