"General displeasure
Aug 2nd 2007 | ANKARA
From The Economist print edition
The army refuses to retreat
LESS than a fortnight ago, Sebahat Tuncel, a 32-year-old former nurse, was locked in an Istanbul jail, charged with membership of the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). But she jubilantly walked out after being elected to parliament on July 22nd along with 18 fellow members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party. Ms Tuncel's newly-acquired parliamentary immunity protects her from further prosecution in a case that rested on her frequent trips to PKK camps in northern Iraq. Ms Tuncel says she was trying to find a missing brother."
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