[6] It was worried that through the parliamentary immunity the Islamist parties would achieve to impose Islam on the political agenda or that Kurds would demand more autonomy in South East Turkey.
[9] Following, Orhan Doğan, Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle and Selim Sadak were arrested and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for membership in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
[11] After the Susurluk accident in 1996 in which the Turkish drug trafficker Abdullah Catli and a police chief died and the Kurdish warlord Sedat Bucak survived.
[17] In 2002 the MP of the oppositional Republican People's Party (CHP) Attila Kart requested his parliamentary immunity to be lifted in order to be able to defend himself in court.
[19] In the parliamentary election of 2007, Sebahat Tuncel was a candidate for parliament of the Thousand Hopes alliance supported by the Democratic Society Party (DTP) while imprisoned for terrorism related charges.
[22] In March 2021, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu had his parliamentary immunity lifted and was expelled from parliament after his sentence of 2 years and 6 months imprisonment for a tweet which included an article with a demand for peace negotiations by a member of the PKK was confirmed by the Court of Cassation.