Turkish opposition party challenges Erdoğan remarks against Kurds

The pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) on Wednesday submitted a list of its members' signatures calling for lifting their parliamentary immunity.

HDP's leader Selahattin Demirtas said that the party refuses parliamentary immunity and its members are not afraid of any investigations or any action by law.

Demirtas has called on the all members of the parliament to refuse the parliamentary immunity if they "are brave enough to appear in courts".

The move came just one day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that parliament must strip the immunity from prosecution of HDP lawmakers and make them “pay the price” for links to “terrorist groups".

Erdoğan , however, claimed he rejected the closing of any political party, suggesting that politicians should be the object of the cases, not legal entities.