Complaint against prosecutor who ordered Gergerlioğlu's detention

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The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Law and Human Rights Commission has appealed to the Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) and filed a criminal complaint against Ankara Public Prosecutor Ersoy Yıldız, who gave an instruction for the detention of HDP's Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who was stripped of his MP status and keeping a justice watch at the Parliament.

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The petition of the party has requested that the public prosecutor be penalized on charges of "forgery of official documents by public officials or civil servants" as per the Article 204 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) and "causing aggrievement of people or public loss by acting against the requirements of his or her duty" as per the Article 257 of the TCK.

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It has been indicated that a criminal complaint will also be filed against the police officers who took down minutes on the grounds that the documents and minutes cited as the reason for Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu's detention at the Parliament had been forged.

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What happened?

HDP Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was sentenced to 2 years, 6 months in prison on charge of "propagandizing for a terrorist organization" on February 21, 2018 on the grounds of a social media post from 2016. This ruling given by the Kocaeli 2nd Heavy Penal Court has recently been upheld by the 16th Penal Chamber of the Court of Cassation.

Speaking shortly after this ruling was handed down, Gergerlioğlu said that the verdict was "political", adding, "Strip searches, abductions, tortures... Some people got disturbed by us talking about all these."

He also made an application to the Constitutional Court. However, the final ruling of the court was read out at the Plenary Session of the Parliament on March 17, 2021 and he was stripped of his MP duty. He did not leave the Parliament in protest, starting a justice watch.

During his justice watch, he was detained at the Parliament as part of a new investigation on March 21 and released after giving his statement. (RT/SD)