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The Ministry of Energy has answered the Parliamentary question of CHP MP Şahin on the number of mining projects on Ida and Madra Mountains. “Thousands of mining licences have been granted to thousands of hectares of land”, Şahin has said.

HDP MPs Osman Baydemir and Selma Irmak have been relieved of MP duties due to finalized verdicts rendered for them. The number of HDP MPs who are relived of MP duties has increased to 11.

With HDP Şırnak MP Encü being relieved of MP duties, the number of HDP MPs who were relieved of MP duties increased to seven.

HDP Ağrı MP Leyla Zana has been relieved of her MP duties at parliamentary General Assembly due to absence. HDP MPs have left the General Assembly.

An investigation has been launched into all party assembly members of CHP for “defaming President Erdoğan”. The subject of the investigation is a statement made on November 6, 2016 in which the arrests of HDP MPs and journalists were criticized.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union consisting of parliamentarians of UN countries has become a party to case of arrested Co-Chairs and MPs of the HDP that was brought before the European Court of Human Rights.

Constitutional Court has rejected the appeal against the decision that the HDP MPs Faysal Sarıyıldız and Tuğba Hezer-Öztürk be relieved of their MP duties, and ruled that the decision was in accordance with the Constitution, the applicable laws, and the by-laws.

HDP İzmir MP Kürkçü, after being taken forcibly before the Court, reminded that his parliamentary immunity continues and asked “How will you try a PACE member for whose trial a permission of PACE is needed?”