A member of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, has been included as part of a parliamentary trip abroad for the first time, a news portal reported.

The DTP’s MuÅŸ deputy, Sırrı Sakık, has accompanied a delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Åžahin to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, according to news portal Gazeteport.

The delegation is in Baku to attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of Turkic-Speaking Nations, or TÜRKPA.

Members of the DTP have been excluded from parliamentary delegations on foreign trips, despite having a bloc in Parliament.

“This is not a favor. It is a right,” said Sakık. “For two years they didn’t let us exercise this right. This development shows that it is possible if they want to let it happen,” he said.

DTP members have previously protested over not being included in delegations traveling abroad during Köksal Toptan’s tenure as speaker and even threatened to take the matter to the European Court of Human Rights.

The DTP's Şırnak deputy, Hasip Kaplan, had said: "The inability to accept different points of view is the reason behind this discrimination being carried out despite there being four parties in Parliament.”

DTP leader Ahmet Türk had also criticized the situation. In an earlier sign of change, President Abdullah Gül took a DTP deputy along when he visited China in June