DIYARBAKIR, Kurdistan’s Capital, — According to Firt News Agency, Diyarbakir 4th Heavy Penal Court has requested a total of seventy-five-years imprisonment for Aysel Tuğluk, former Kurdish Member of Parliament who represent the banned pro-Kurdish party, Democratic Society Party (DTP).
Tuğluk has served in the Parliament since July 22, 2007 and has individually been targeted by legal procedure and heavy sentences. Aysel Tuğluk’s parliamentary immunity was rescinded following the Constitutional Court ban of the DTP on 11 December 2009.
Diyarbakir 4th Heavy Penal Court requested the sentences on the base of 12 separate speeches. The charge is of “making propaganda of an illegal organization” and “committing crime on behalf of an illegal organization without being member of it”.
The Court underlined that Tuğluk refers to Kurdish national leader Abdullah Öcalan as an interlocutor for the solution of the Kurdish Question in 9 different speeches she made.