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Turkey: Immunity Bill lays prosecution threat on pro-Kurd MPs
by Our Foreign Desk
THE Turkish parliament passed an Act yesterday to strip 138 opposition MPs of their legal immunity, opening the way to their prosecution on terror charges.
A total of 376 deputies in the 550-seat assembly in Ankara voted in favour of the government-backed Bill, avoiding a referendum on the constitutional change.
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