The online newspaper who published the article, T24, was not prosecuted.[22] Due to this conviction, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was stripped of his parliamentary membership on the 17 March 2021.[23] Following he would not leave the building of the Turkish Parliament and initiated a so-called "Justice Watch" together with other Member of Parliaments from the HDP.[24] The same day his Parliamentary immunity was revoked, the Turkish state prosecutor before the Court of Cassation Bekir Şahin filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court demanding for him and 686 other HDP politicians a five-year ban to engage in politics.[25] The lawsuit was filed together with the request for a closure of the HDP[26] due to the parties alleged organizational links with the PKK[25] and its politicians role in terrorist activities.[27] On 21 March 2021 in the morning he was detained by the Turkish police and dragged out of the Turkish Parliament.