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		</div><p>Turkish legislators have approved a bill to amend the constitution, paving the way for the trials of several pro-Kurdish and other deputies.</p>
<p>When parliament convened in Ankara, more than two-thirds of the 550-seat assembly voted in favour of the government-backed bill.</p>
<p>It puts 138 policy-makers at risk of prosecution, the vast majority of them from two opposition parties.</p>
<p>The bill needs to be ratified by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.</p>
<p>The amendment was proposed by the Justice and Development Party after the president accused the pro-Kurdish People&#8217;s Democratic Party (HDP) of being an arm of the outlawed Kurdish rebels and repeatedly called for their prosecution on terror charges.</p>
<p>Speaking in the Black Sea town of Rize moments ahead of the final round of voting, Mr Erdogan expressed hope for a favourable outcome, saying: &#8220;My people don&#8217;t want to see criminal deputies in parliament.&#8221;</p>
<p>The decision coincides with a wave of violence in Turkey&#8217;s south east after the collapse of a more than two-year peace process between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Worker&#8217;s Party, or PKK.</p>
<p>The HDP, which backs Kurdish and other minority rights, denies accusations that it is the political arm of the PKK, considered a terrorist group by Ankara and its allies. The party has urged the government to end security operations in the south east and to resume peace efforts.</p>
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