Musa Farisoğulları

Stripping three MPs of lawmaker status unconstitutional: CHP leader

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed the stripping of the parliamentary status of three opposition lawmakers, calling it a blatant breach of the Turkish constitution and accusing the government of disregarding the people's will.

Election law should be revised: Justice minister

 

Considering and preparing a new election law is useful and necessary, Turkey's justice minister said on June 8. 

Abdulhamit Gül evaluated the agenda in an appearance on journalist Cüneyt Özdemir's YouTube channel.

Three former opposition party lawmakers were sent to prison last Friday, a day after parliament revoked their seats.

MHP leader welcomes dismissal of opposition MPs from the parliament 

The dismissal of three opposition lawmakers is "is an obligatory requirement of the justice and democracy ethics," leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli said on June 8. 

"Everyone is equal before the law. Nobody has the privilege or freedom to commit a crime," Bahçeli said in a written statement. 

Former opposition MP released from prison as part of virus measures

Former lawmaker Enis Berberoğlu was allowed to be held in an open prison and was released late on June 5 as part of measures against the novel coronavirus.

Berberoğlu has the legal right to be transferred to an open prison due to the time he already spent in prison in a previous arrest.