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[New Middle East News] Turkish Opposition Lawmakers Take Parliamentary Oath | New Middle ...: Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies took oath at the parliament yesterday. CHP deputies, who earlier rejected to take oath in an effort to protest court rulings not releasing jailed elected deputies Mehmet Haberal and Mustafa Balbay, have put an end to their boycott as they reached a consensus with the Justice and Development Party (AK).

[Hudson New York :: Writings] Turkish Opposition Lawmakers Take Parliamentary Oath: And more ...: The Republican People's Party (CHP), which holds 135 seats in the 550-member legislature, had boycotted the opening ceremony of Parliament in June along with Kurdish deputies in protest of the imprisonment of the elected lawmakers.

[DUNYATIMES] Your place is in Ankara, not Diyarbak?r, PM Erdo?an tells pro ...: However, six of the BDP-sponsored deputies are currently under arrest as part of a trial that concerns the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK). The Supreme Election Board (YSK) last month stripped Hatip Dicle, one the BDP’s six jailed deputies, of his mandate over a prior terrorism-related conviction, which led to outrage among the pro-Kurdish party and its supporters.

[KurdNet News ekurd.net] Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, Turkey in peace ... - Kurd Net: Abdullah Ocalan called a creation of another council which will guideline the process of creating a new constitution for Turkey. He said Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) should participate actively in this process, ANF news agency reported.

[DUNYATIMES] Series of talks, statements signal end to oath-taking crisis ...: Çiçek, who is suggested as the main actor in solving the crisis by the CHP, urged both the CHP and the BDP to review their decision in refusing to take the oath and boycotting Parliament and called on both parties to make a positive start and turn a new page. He is expected to invite all parliamentary groups’ deputy chairmen to discuss the issue in order to speed up attempts to find a solution to the ongoing impasse.

[Home] Global Rights - PKK leader Öcalan says BDP can take oath and ...: The BDP earlier announced that they would boycott Parliament in protest of the Supreme Election Board's (YSK) decision regarding Hatip Dicle and five other jailed deputies. The YSK stripped Dicle, one the six jailed deputies, of his mandate over a prior terrorism-related conviction after the June 12 vote, which led to outrage among the pro-Kurdish party and its supporters.

[Erkan's Field Diary] Oath-taking crisis over [so what was that about?] a Politics ...: The expected thing happened: The leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) announced that members of his party will not be taking the parliamentary oath on Tuesday in protest of court decisions that prevented two of its deputies from being released from jail, and the crisis has reached a peak.

[Read More from GlobalRights] Global Rights - PM rebuffs boycott, says Parliament will work ...: ErdoÄŸan also recalled that a closure case was filed against the AK Party when the party held 65 percent of the seats in Parliament and that journalist Balbay, one of CHP’s jailed deputies, wrote then that “the judiciary also reflects the nation’s will.” “Is not the judiciary, which then represented the nation’s will, now representing the nation’s will today?” he asked.

[Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul] A terrorist in parliament | Journalist in Turkey, background ...: Thinking about this, my mind wandered off to a Turkey in which Karayilan and Öcalan would actually want to be candidate members of Turkish parliament. That would have to be a Turkey in which the Kurds finally have the cultural and political rights they deserve.

[World Post News] Turkish Opposition Lawmakers Take Parliamentary Oath « Feeds ...: Representatives of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) did not take the oath of office in June along with Kurdish deputies to protest court decisions keeping party members in detention. Parliamentary proceedings remained in limbo as the left-of-center CHP and the Kurdish nationalist Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) refused to take part in debates.

[Journalist in Turkey, background articles, news and weblog about Turkey and Istanbul] Deadlock after boycot parliament | Journalist in Turkey ...: ISTANBUL – A first in Turkish politics: the new parliament was inaugurated Tuesday the afternoon, but only about two third of a total of 550 MP's took their oath. Two opposition parties refused to .

[Yunus Emre GENÇ |] PM to opposition: Parliament to keep working despite boycott ...: Turkish lawmakers on Tuesday took their oaths in a parliamentary session, but the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and independent deputies supported by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) boycotted the ceremony. Some 30 independent deputies did not attend the ceremony to protest a Supreme Election Board (YSK) decision to strip an elected politician, Hatip Dicle, of his parliamentary status due to a past conviction for spreading terrorist propaganda and subsequent court rulings against the release of Dicle and five other deputies who are jailed suspects in a separate terror-related case.

[Iraqi Dinar News] Turkey: Independent Kurdish deputies re-join BDP | Iraqi Dinar News: Yesterday’s parliamentary oath-swearing ceremony in Ankara was boycotted by the Kurdish deputies in protest against the detention of six of their elected colleagues who had been arrested for alleged membership of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) shortly after the national vote.

[thewhitepath: Akyol in English — On Islam, Turkey and More.] TheWhitePath: Akyol in English — On Islam, Turkey and More. » Blog ...: Personally speaking, I am a Turk and the concept of a “Turkish nation” sounds just fine for me. But a considerable part of Turkey’s Kurds have long objected to that term, and argued that they can be a part of the “nation of Turkey,” but not “the Turkish nation.” In their view, the latter is like making Iraq’s parliamentarians swear “before the great Arab Nation,” whereas, of course, not all Iraqis are Arabs.

[Dinar Daddy's Tidbits] Turkey | Dinar Daddy's Tidbits: Yesterday’s parliamentary oath-swearing ceremony in Ankara was boycotted by the Kurdish deputies in protest against the detention of six of their elected colleagues who had been arrested for alleged membership of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) shortly after the national vote.

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