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TURKISH opposition parties were quick to condemn Friday night’s short-lived military coup — including those whose MPs face prosecution for sedition.
MPs from the pro-Kurdish HDP and the Kemalist CHP were recently stripped of their immunity from prosecution, and investigations for such crimes as insulting the president opened against them.
HDP co-chairs Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas said: “No-one should put himself in the place of the people’s will,” adding that their party was opposed as a matter of principle to coups under any circumstances.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
