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 “together with the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] terrorist organisaton and … is an extension of the organisaton.” MHP leader Devlet Bahceli has been agitating for some time for the HDP to be shut down. He has cited the so-called Kobane case, which has seen charges brought against 108 senior party figures, including former co-leaders Figen Yuksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas.