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Gültan Kışanak, Peace and Democracy Party Co-Chair, criticized PM Erdogan's authoritarian tone--resembling it to Islam's fatwa statements--on the parliamentarian immunity issue, saying that Kurdish people might consider boycotting the national parliament entirely.

Peace Assembly of Turkey urged the AKP government to withdraw its efforts to release the parliamentarian immunities for 10 pro-Kurdish deputies, saying that the government should instead ensue negotiations cornering the Kurdish question.

Referring to the arrest of MPs in 1994, Minister of the Interior Atalay has said that such an event would not happen again.

Six members of the pro-Kurdish DTP face trials because of speeches they made, despite having parliamentarian immunity.

The Prime Ministerial Office has prepared 45 reports in order to lift the parliamentarian immunity of 27 members of parliament (MPs), most of them from the pro-Kurdish DTP.