President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his statement on lifting parliamentary immunity following his Saudi Arabia trip on January 2 had said, “I believe the process to be started with lifting the parliamentary immunity will have positive impact on our country’s climate with respect to fight against terror. It is not possible for us to accept messages aiming to divide out country”.
Erdoğan, 6 Ocak 2016’da sarayda yaptığı değerlendirmede HDP’li vekillerle ilgili Meclis’in ve yargının gereğini yapması gerektiğini söylemişti: