DİYARBAKIR - Former HDP MP Selma Irmak, who criticized AKP President Erdogan for destroying cemeteries and dragging bodies behind panzers, was sentenced to "insulting the state" and "insulting the president".

 

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) ex-MP Selma Irmak about the corpse of Hacı Lokman Birlik in Cizîr (Cizre) district of Şirinex(Şırnak), dragged behind a panzer, the stripped exposing of Ekin Wan's body in the Gimgim district of Mûş, the scanning of the ambulance in Cizîr A lawsuit was filed by health worker Abdülaziz Yural, again on the grounds of his statement on a television program in 2015 regarding the murder of ambulance driver Şeyhmus Dursun in Elkê and the destruction of cemeteries in places such as Licê, Pîran, Xerzan, Gewer and Amed(Diyarbakır). In the ongoing case at the Diyarbakır 1st Criminal Court of First Instance with the allegation of "insulting the President" and "openly humiliating the government" twice, the prosecution gave an opinion with a request for punishment.

 

PRISON SENTENCE FOR UP TO 8 YEARS

 

The prosecution demanded that Irmak be sentenced to prison terms ranging from 6 months to 2 years twice, for "publicly humiliating the Government of the Republic of Turkey".

 

The prosecution asked for Irmak to be imprisoned for a total of 2 to 8 years.