ANKARA (AA) - January 24, 2013 - Salih Firat, a parliamentarian of main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), resigned from his party on Thursday.
Firat, parliamentarian from Adiyaman province, told AA that CHP Izmir deputy Birgul Ayman Guler's speech at the Parliamentary General Assembly on Wednesday was one of the reasons he resigned. Ayman said during the debate of a bill regarding defendants' right to communicate in a language other than Turkish, "Turks and Kurds were not equal as nations."
CHP's number of seats at Parliament dropped to 134, while seats of independents increased to seven.
Distribution of seats at Parliament is as follows after resignation of Firat;
AK Party: 326
CHP: 134
MHP: 52
BDP: 29
Independents: 7
(AK Party-Justice & Development Party, MHP-Nationalist Movement Party, BDP-Peace & Democracy Party)
