ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition said on Friday it would challenge a decision by parliament to strip MPs of immunity at the constitutional court, casting the move as undemocratic and a bid to boost President Tayyip Erdogan’s powers.
The constitutional change, approved by parliament earlier on Friday and strongly backed by Erdogan, could see the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) all but wiped out in parliament.
HDP co-leader Selahattin Demirtas told reporters that the move aimed to empower the presidential palace and that his party would challenge it at Turkey’s top court.
Reporting by Gulsen Solaker; Writing by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Nick Tattersall
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