Turkey s top court narrowly ruled in favour of freezing pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) bank accounts holding Treasury aid on Thursday while it hears a case on shutting down the party
Bekir Sahin, top prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, had last month requested the block on the HDP accounts, where it receives funds from the Treasury, for the duration of the case. The Constitutional Court accepted the indictment against the HDP in June 2021 after a years-long crackdown under Erdogan's rule in which thousands of HDP members have been tried on mainly terrorism-related charges.