Turkey rejects censure motion
Turkey´s Parliament has rejected a censure motion against Interior Minister Besir Atalay.
The motion, submitted by the main opposition Republican People´s Party, or C-H-P stirred heated debates  Parliament.
Inserted : 26.02.2010 16:54:22
Updated : 26.02.2010 17:58:03
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But Turkish lawmakers rejected the move in a vote of 310 votes against  it,  with 146 voting for censure.

The main opposition party submitted the censure motion against the interior minister, accusing him of instructing judges and prosecutors to free members of the outlawed P-K-K, who surrendered to Turkish authorties in October.

34 members of PKK, who had been in camps in Northern Iraq,  did turn themselves in to Turkish officials at Habur border gate.

It was part of the government´s Kurdish opening.

Interior Minister Atalay was assigned with the coordination of the Kurdish opening.

The Interior Ministry has denied the claims that it instructed judges and prosecutors to free the P-K-K returnees.

In a statement the Ministery said: “The Turkish Republic is a state governed by the rule of law.

All legal procedures, vis-à-vis the returning group, were carried out by independent judicial bodies in accordance with their authority.

No interference came from our ministry.”

The Erdogan´s government hopes broadening Kurdish rights within Turkey  will help end the conflict with the outlawed P-K-K.

More than 40-thousand people have died since the P-K-K took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984.

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