Iconic lawmaker's ouster a gloomy deja vu for Turkey - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Sibel Hurtas

Sibel Hurtas

Jan 18, 2018

Pro-Kurdish lawmaker Leyla Zana takes her seat as she arrives at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Oct. 1, 2011. — REUTERS/Umit Bektas

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Pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers walk with placards in Kurdish and Turkish during a protest against a state crackdown, which has seen dozens of lawmakers and mayors jailed over suspected links to militant separatists, in Diyarbakir, Turkey July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar - RTX3CYDA

Turkish parliament expels more pro-Kurdish lawmakers in absentia

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Sibel Yigitalp (L), a parliamentarian from the the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), and Abdullah Akengin, a former local mayor, holds a sit-in protest against the curfew in Sur district, in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, December 18, 2015. REUTERS/Sertac Kayar - RTX1ZABH

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Lawmaker of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Dilek Ocalan, niece of jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, returns to her seat after taking her oath at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2015. For many Turks, the name Ocalan is indelibly linked to the man they revile as leader of a Kurdish insurgency in which 40,000 people died. But on Tuesday, an Ocalan became one of the country's youngest parliamentarians. Dilek, the 28-year-old niece of jailed militan

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Sibel Hurtas

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