Erdogan wants to ban the pre-election opposition party
Yesterday – January 10In , Turkey’s chief prosecutor voiced his final arguments in court due to the closure of the Kurdish opposition party.
Since March 2021 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan government of parliament is trying to shut down its third largest party, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), citing its ties to outlawed Kurdish militants.
The party says that the government defends the rights of the Kurds political targeted for opposing freedoms and oppression of dissidents.
Hearings on this case in the Constitutional Court are coming to an end. “AFP” writes that this case is related to Erdogan’s re-election in the June elections. of parliament will have a great impact on the future composition.
HDP 2018In 2012, he collected 12 percent of the votes and has 56 mandates in the 579-seat parliament. Its release could limit the voting rights of millions of Kurdish voters and worsen Turkey’s already complicated relations with the West.
Erdogan The HDP is under the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). political he calls the wing. PKK USA and the EU, as well as Ankara, recognized as a terrorist organization.
Prosecutor General Bekir Sahin said in the court that HDP is the “summons office” of the PKK.
“We demonstrated that the accused party has become the center of actions against the indivisible integrity of the country,” – Sahin told journalists after presenting the final arguments in court.
“His relations with the PKK are a known fact. Our whole society knows this,” he added.
Turkey His government shut down other pro-Kurdish parties up to the HDP. Some of them were released in the background of persecution, and were later re-formed under other names.
Thousands of HDP members, dozens of local officials imprisonment done.
The government opened the current case to the HDP after the events of February 2021. Then the prisoners held hostage by the PKK in the caves in the north of Iraq free 13 in operation soldier perished has been Erdogan PKK Turkey He accused his soldiers of executing him.
The HDP did not unequivocally condemn the action of the PKK in its condolence statement.
Last week, the Constitutional Court ruled that the party received state funds bank has frozen his account. This means that HDP is deprived of its main source of income before the election campaign. Party it political called a decision.
HDP will prepare for self-defense in court within a month. which has 15 judges court can implement a political ban with a two-thirds majority.
The party said that it expects the work to be completed “in the coming months, before the election”. Prosecutor General and said that when the sentence will be issued is a matter “within the authority of the Constitutional Court”.