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Turkish parliament adopts contentious immunity bill: speaker

ANKARA, (APP/AFP) – Turkey’s parliament on Friday adopted
a highly divisive bill that will lift immunity for dozens of pro-Kurdish and other MPs and could see them thrown out of parliament.
The bill was backed by 376 MPs in the 550-seat legislature, which
means it will become law directly without being put to a referendum, parliament speaker Ismail Kahraman said.