Immunity files against 42 MPs sent to Turkish parliament

The immunity files against 42 MPs, including HDP MPs, have been submitted to the Turkish parliament.

Ankara- The Presidential Memorandum seeking to strip the parliamentary immunity of 42 MPs, including Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs have been submitted to the Turkish parliament. The summary proceedings have been sent to the Joint Committee of the Committee on Constitution and the Committee on Justice by the Turkish Parliamentary Speaker's Office.

The names of MPs, whose parliamentary immunity is requested to be lifted, are below:

HDP Elih (Batman) MPs Ayşe Acar Başaran, Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki, Feleknas Uca and Necdet İpekyüz; HDP Dersim (Tunceli) MPs Alican Ünlü; HDP Istanbul MPs Musa Piroğlu, Dilşat Canbaz Kaya, Erol Katırcıoğlu and Züleyha Gülüm; HDP Şırnak MPs Nuran İmir and Hasan Özgüneş; HDP Mardin MPs Pero Dundar and Ebru Günay; HDP Izmir MP Murat Çepni; HDP Colemerg (Hakkari) MP Sait Dede; HDP Amed (Diyarbakır) MPs Dersim Dağ and Remziye Tosun; HDP Ankara MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu; HDP Riha (Urfa) MPs Ayşe Sürücü, Nusrettin Maçin and Nimetullah Erdoğmuş; HDP Dilok (Antep) MP Mahmut Toğrul; HDP Agiri (Ağrı) MPs Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir, Berdan Öztürk and Abdullah Koç; HDP Muş MPs Gülistan Koçyiğit and Şevin Coşkun; HDP Wan (Van) MPs Murat Sarısaç, Sezai Temelli, Muazzez Orhan Işık and Tayyip Temel; HDP Sêrt (Siirt) MPs Meral Danış Beştaş and Sıdık Taş; HDP Mersin MP Rıdvan Turan; İstanbul MP Ümit Özdağ; Workers' Party of Turkey (Türkiye İşçi Partisi-TİP) Hatay MP Barış Atay Mengüllüoğlu; TİP Istanbul MP Ahmet Şık; Democrat Party Ordu MP Cemal Enginyurt; Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chair Saliha Aydeniz; Republican People's Party (CHP) Izmir MP Ahmet Tuncay Özkan; CHP Muğla MP Burak Erbay and CHP Istanbul MP Engin Altay.