Turkish Parliament Strips Status of Two More Pro-Kurdish Lawmakers

Turkey's parliament stripped two lawmakers from a pro-Kurdish party of their parliamentary status on Tuesday for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and sharing a picture of a fighter who fought alongside a Kurdish militia in Syria. The move further reduced the parliamentary strength of the Democratic People's Party (HDP), the second-largest opposition party in the chamber. The party's seats fell to 50 from 59 it won in the last election, and nine other HDP lawmakers are...

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