Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, stripped of his MP status, has applied to the Constitutional Court. He has referred to CHP’s Berberoğlu, who has regained his status as an MP following a ruling of right violation by the top court.

Concluding the application of rights defender Özlem Dalkıran, who was on trial in the Büyükada case, the Constitutional Court has unanimously concluded that her right to personal liberty and security was violated by her imprisonment.

Nine political parties have denounced the closure case against the Peoples' Democratic Party: “We declare that we will keep waging a struggle for justice with the HDP in the face of the government’s unlawful attack on the entire opposition.”

We have spoken with law professor Can about the closure case filed against the HDP: “Turkey is closing the political channels. This means, ‘Resort to violence.’ Everyone needs to stop and think about what it means.”

Stripped of his MP status, HDP’s Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has received a notification indicating that he is expected to hand himself over to the public prosecutor’s office within 10 days; otherwise, a detention warrant will be issued against him.

The imprisoned politician has been sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison because of his 2015 remarks against Erdoğan.

HDP's Gergerlioğlu was stripped of his parliamentary seat and started to keep a "justice watch" at the parliament prior to his detention.

Rights defender Sebla Arcan: “The lawsuit filed against Saturday Mothers/ People has been filed against the struggle for rights waged by the relatives of the enforced disappeared, who are themselves rights defenders.”

Seven people, four arrested, have been indicted for protesting the appointed rector of Boğaziçi University in İstanbul’s Kadıköy. They face up to 11 years in prison on a series of charges including “damaging public property.”

Answering the questions of bianet about the closure case filed against the HDP, imprisoned former Co-Chair of the HDP Selahattin Demirtaş says, “I am sure we will foil all these unjust attacks before the law and at the ballot box.”

Stripped of his MP status on March 17 and keeping a justice watch at the Parliament since then, HDP’s Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was taken into custody as part of a new investigation. He has been released later in the day.

The decision was intended to prevent the new Taksim Square project, the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality has said.

The Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, who has recently filed a closure case against the HDP, has demanded a political ban for 687 people, including Ayhan, Akbulut and Fırat, who are no longer alive.

Mayor İmamoğlu and Pervin Buldan have exchanged messages of solidarity in a phone conversation.

The Ministry of National Education of Turkey has prepared an introductory book on Diyarbakır, making no mention of Kurds or Kurdish. The language spoken in the province is similar to ‘Baku Turkish’ in Azerbaijan, according to the book.

In a statement about the closure case against the HDP, Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey (DİSK) Chair Çerkezoğlu has noted that society is faced with serious consequences of the economic crisis and pandemic in Turkey.

Having assigned a rapportetur for the initial examination of the case, the Constitutional Court will decide within 15 days whether it will accept the indictment against the party.

Here is a brief overview of how the print newspapers of Turkey, pro-government and critical alike, reported on the closure case filed against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and expulsion of its MP Gergerlioğlu from the Parliament.

A group of rights organizations have released a joint statement about HDP’s Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who has been stripped of his MP status: “It is a shame for our democracy that his right of deputyship has been seized.”

Several predecessors of both the ruling AKP and the HDP, which is facing closure now, had been shut down throughout the history of the Republic.