TURKISH opposition parties were quick to condemn Friday night’s short-lived military coup — including those whose MPs face prosecution for sedition.

MPs from the pro-Kurdish HDP and the Kemalist CHP were recently stripped of their immunity from prosecution, and investigations for such crimes as insulting the president opened against them.

HDP co-chairs Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas said: “No-one should put himself in the place of the people’s will,” adding that their party was opposed as a matter of principle to coups under any circumstances.