Turkey's main opposition leader addressed party members on Tuesday and said the party’s deputies would not take their parliamentary oaths until two incarcerated party colleagues were released from prison and allowed to do so as well, Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Republican People's Party (CHP), leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has severely criticized a court decision preventing elected CHP deputies Mehmet Haberal and Mustafa Balbay from entering Parliament.
"We will not take the parliamentary oath until our friends are allowed to do so," said Kılıçdaroğlu.
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