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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas, jailed since 2016 despite Western calls for his release, said the Turkish opposition should unite against rising oppression and moves to divide them, including a court case to ban his party.

4 Min Read ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States and Europe criticised a move by NATO ally Turkey to ban the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), saying it undermined democracy, but a spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan said the HDP had ties to Kurdish militants. FILE PHOTO: Pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Omer Gergerlioglu and the other lawmakers from his party hold a protest after the Turkish Parliament stripped him of his MP status during a session at the pa...

April 1, 2021 ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejected on April 1 a March 17 indictment by a top prosecutor seeking to close the nation’s second-largest opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). The case charged HDP officials with alleged ties to Kurdish militants and sought a five-year-political ban on more than 600 party members. Citing procedural omissions, Turkey’s top court returned the 609-page indictment to the Court of Cassation, which can resubmit the ...

Published date: 17 March 2021 15:36 UTC | Last update: 5 sec ago Turkeys parliament on Wednesday stripped a prominent human rights advocate of his MPs status following a verdict related to his Twitter posts that called for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish issue in the country. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a member of the human rights commission in the parliament from the pro-Kurdish HDP, was handed an appeals court decision last month that upheld ...

Published date: 17 March 2021 15:53 UTC | Last update: 3 days 14 hours ago Turkeys chief prosecutor filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, seeking to disband the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democracy Party (HDP), accusing it of having links with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party ( PKK). Bekir Sahin, chief public prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals, said in an indictment submitted to the Constitutional Court that the HDP, "through the actions and statements of...

Turkish Move to Shut Leading Kurdish Party Draws U.S. Rebuke Bloomberg 3 days ago Selcan Hacaoglu and Firat Kozok © Photographer: Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images Europe ISTANBUL, TURKEY - MARCH 22: People walk along the street with Turkish flag on background on March 22, 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images) (Bloomberg) -- Turkey’s chief prosecutor moved to shut the leading pro-Kurdish party, filing charges that could bar its members from politics and...

TURKEY’S Supreme Court of Appeals filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court today demanding the closure of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), as demanded by the neofascist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). Chief Public Prosecutor Bekir Sahin filed the case, which claims that the HDP aimed “to destroy and eliminate the indivisible unity of the state with its nation through their statements and actions.” In a written statement, Mr Sahin claimed that the HDP acted “togethe...

Turkey's under fire pro-Kurdish party risks ban

Turkey's government plans to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the ruling AK Party's deputy parliament chairman was quoted as saying on Tuesday, the most senior official to endorse nationalist demands for its closure.

  ANKARA, TURKEY -- An army helicopter crashed in eastern Turkey on Thursday, killing 11 military personnel on board and injuring two others, the Defence Ministry said. News reports said a high-ranking officer was among the victims. The Cougar type helicopter crashed near the village of Cekmece, close to the town of Tatvan, in the predominantly Kurdish-populated Bitlis province. It was on its way to Tatvan from the nearby province of Bingol when authorities lost contact with it at 2:25 pm (...