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Turkish prosecutors lodge appeal to strip HDP MP of immunity after sexist smear campaign
HDP MP Semra Guze

TURKISH prosecutors are seeking to strip Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Semra Guzel of her parliamentary immunity following an intense media and state-controlled smear campaign.

Photographs have emerged showing the Kurdish lawmaker meeting with fighter Volkan Bora in a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camp in Iraqi Kurdistan taken in 2014.

She had been engaged to Mr Bora who was killed in April 2017 and visited the camp while she was a medical student.

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