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Turkish Parliament Expels Opposition MP Over Social Media Posts By Raziye AKKOC
03/17/21 AT 11:25 AM
Turkey s parliament on Wednesday revoked the seat of an opposition party MP and outspoken rights defender after his controversial conviction over a social media post.
Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu has been a thorn in the side of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan s government, shining a light on a variety of human rights violations that often go ignored by the mainstream Turkish media.
The 55-year-old represents the pro-Kurdish leftist Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), Turkey s second-largest opposition group.
Turkey s top appeals court last month upheld his 2018 conviction for spreading terrorism propaganda over a post he shared in 2016 before he was elected an MP in the northwestern province of Kocaeli.
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