Hatip Dicle

Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı deputy Leyla Zana was acquitted of three separate charges directed at her as a part of a terror investigation on July 11.

A co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the main target of a government-led provisional change in the constitution that would allow parliament to lift legislative immunities, has vowed to not "voluntarily" comply with any possible legal call for prosecution.

Cracks have emerged within the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over a decision to lend support to a government proposal on a provisional change in the constitution that would allow parliament to lift the immunities of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers and others for one time only.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation on Dec. 28 over the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair's remarks on autonomy as a part of articles regarding crimes against constitutional order and its operation in the Turkish criminal law.

The correct principle on the topic of parliamentary immunities is to do what the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has said. Yes, don't be surprised. In their 2001 party program, they said exactly this: "Immunity will be regarded as a whole, together with the obstacles and privileges of all public employees that stand in the way of being tried.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Turkey guilty in the case of retired commander Levent Bekta?, who complained he had failed to obtain notice of the public prosecutor?s opinion during his criminal proceedings.

A five-member delegation will meet Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers? Party (PKK), March 14 on ?mral? Island where Öcalan is serving a life sentence.

Turkey's main opposition party has engaged in self-criticism on the Kurdish peace bid process.

"We couldn't explain our suggestions to Kurdish people for the solution of the Kurdish problem. We were at fault, not you," the Republican People's Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said at a party meeting extraordinarily held in the souteastern province of Diyarbakır on Nov. 29.

The remaining two arrested people in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trial were released July 11 by a Diyarbakır court, as the hearings will continue.

The same court in the southeastern province had released 30 of the 32 arrested suspects in the main case against the KCK, the urban wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

A Diyarbakır court has released 30 of the 32 arrested suspects in the main case against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), the urban wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).