Turkey moves to ban pro-Kurdish HDP party

Turkey moves to ban pro-Kurdish HDP party
AFP
4 days ago
AFP
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Turkish member of Parliament Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu (C) has long been a thorn in the side of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government
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 militants 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 and is recognised as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and its Western allies.

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