Turkey moves to ban pro-Kurdish HDP Party

Inxed — Editor

In Con 4:52, March 18, 2021

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party was fighting for its political survival on Wednesday after a prosecutor asked the country’s top court to shut it down for alleged links to PKK waging a deadly insurgency against the state.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long portrayed the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) — parliament’s third-largest — as the political front of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The PKK has been waging an insurgency since 1984 that has killed tens of thousands.

But the HDP firmly denies formal links to the PKK and says it is coming under attack because of its fervent opposition to Erdogan’s 18-year rule.

TAGS

SYRIAN WAR MAP, INTERACTIVE LIVE MAP, CIVIL WAR MAP, SYRIAN ARMY, SAA, SSNP, RUSSIA, USA, RUSSIAN ARMY, AMERICAN MILITARY, SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC FORCES, SDF, KURDS, YPG, PEOPLE'S PROTECTION UNITS, REBELS, FSA, HTS, TURKEY, ISIS, TERRORISTS, IDLIB, AL-QAEDA, IRAN, HEZBOLLAH, ASSYRIAN MILITIA, PKK, KURD MILITIAS, LIBERATION FORCES, LIBYAN ARMY, LNA, LIBYAN TRIBES, EGYPT, GREECE, UAE, JORDAN, GNA, MERCENARIES, TURKISH TERRORISTS, KOSOVO, DONBAS, NEW RUSSIA, NORTH EPIRUS, CYPRUS, GREEK MILITARY, EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONES, EEZ, EAST MED, LEBANON, ALEXANDRETTA, DAMASCUS, ALEPPO, PALMYRA, EAST ANATOLIA, SINAI, ALEXANDRIA, SMYRNA, THESSALONIKI, TRIPOLI, BENGHAZI, CYRENAICA, LIBYA, SYRIA, KURDIA, ITALY, ROME, FRANCE, PARIS, SICILY, MALTA, SARDINIA, CORSICA

Content