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World in brief: February 28

TURKEY: Two more HDP MPs have been stripped of their seats as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan silences critical voices.

MP Filiz Kerestecioglu said his colleague Ibrahim Ayhan had lost his seat because of a social media post “about a person who is fighting Isis” while Ahmet Yildirim had been punished for referring to someone (presumably Mr Erdogan) as a “sultan wannabe.”

 

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