Geylani: You Can't Stop Me From Speaking Kurdish

The Prime Ministerial Office has presented parliament with digests on 183 MPs for "opposing election law".

Erdogan and Baykal also broke election law

There are two MPs of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), as well as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Deniz Baykal, chair of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) on the list.

Hamit Geylani, independent MP of Hakkari, says that demands to lift his immunity are based on the fact that he spoke Kurdish at a rally in Yüksekova, Hakkari, before the 22 July general elections.

"I will continue to commit this crime" 

Speaking to the "Yüksekova News", Geylani said  that no one could prevent him from speaking his mother tongue: "Even if it is a crime, I will continue to commit it".

In his statement, he said further: "There have been demands for my immunity to be lifted because I spoke Kurdish at an election rally in Yüksekova. It was a speech I made knowingly, willingly, lovingly. No one can prevent me from saying 'Hello' to my people in my mother tongue and from speaking about the people's problems in their mother tongue. No one can lift my immunity. No one can stop me from speaking my mother tongue."

There have also been demands to lift Sanliurfa's DTP MP Ibrahim Binici's immunity because he used Kurdish propaganda. (NZ/AG)