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Jailed pending trial, pro-Kurdish politician loses seat in Turkish parliament

A member of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition party lost her seat in parliament for missing several sessions, the Official Gazette showed on Friday, after she was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges .

Semra Guzel, a member of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was jailed pending trial in September over a charge of membership of a terrorist organisation, a detention her party said was unlawful.

Guzel had her parliamentary immunity lifted in March after photos of her from several years ago with a militant from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) circulated on Turkish media.

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