AK Party and the HDP

The correct principle on the topic of parliamentary immunities is to do what the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has said. Yes, don't be surprised. In their 2001 party program, they said exactly this: "Immunity will be regarded as a whole, together with the obstacles and privileges of all public employees that stand in the way of being tried. It should be restricted to the votes and speeches of the deputies in the parliament."  

The AK Party, even though it has pledged this to the nation, never attempted to restrict the immunity of deputies to only "their votes and words during parliamentary work." Moreover, it used this immunity as a shield to cover up corruption investigations. 

This immunity issue is a typical example on how the AK Party set out with the correct "factory settings" and how these adjustments deteriorated as its ruling power increased. 

Our topic today is the lifting of the parliamentary immunities of the deputies of Kurdish-issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). With consent of all parties, if the constitution is changed to restrict the immunity to "the vote and words during parliamentary work," then this general adjustment would be very appropriate. However, instead of this, if they chose to specifically lift the immunities of certain HDP deputies, this would be wrong. 

I also regard the words and actions of some HDP deputies as probably eligible for legal investigation. However, to cover up the corruption investigations with the shield of immunity but then go for some HDP deputies will not only be unfair; it will also serve the HDP grassroots to incline toward the radicals.  
On March 1994, the immunities of deputies Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle and the late Orhan Do?an were lifted and they were...