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Figen Yuksekdag's rights violated after parliamentary immunity stripped, Turkey's Constitutional Court rules
Former HDP co-leaders Figen Yuksekdag (right) and Selahattin Demirtas (left)

by Steve Sweeney

International editor

FORMER Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yuksekdag had her rights to stand for election violated after being stripped of parliamentary immunity, Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled. 

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