By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) - More Turks now believe an opposition alliance is better suited than President Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK.
More Turks now believe an opposition alliance is better suited than President Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party to end the economic turmoil that has engulfed their country
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Recent inflammatory comments by Turkish interior Minister Süleyman Soylu were to blame for the incident, it said.
On Thursday, Soylu said allegations he had links with organised crime were a political smear promoted by the “HDPKK”, an acronym compounding the abbreviations of the HDP and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Earlier in the day, convicted organised crime boss Sedat Peker claimed the interior minster had helped protect him from police investigation.
The attack on its offices came after Soylu had sought to deflect blame for being ”exposed by the mafia and its dark partners” onto the opposition, the HDP said.
Turkish court opens trial of pro-Kurdish party members over 2014 Kobani protest
This content was published on April 26, 2021 - 08:56
April 26, 2021 - 08:56
ANKARA (Reuters) - A Turkish court on Monday opened the trial of dozens of members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic People Party (HDP), including its former leader, over protests which broke out during an Islamic State assault on the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani in 2014.
Thirty-seven people died in the protests, which were triggered by accusations that Turkey s army stood by as the ultra-hardline militants besieged Kobani, a border town in plain view of Turkey.
The HDP says this week s case is another step by authorities to damage the party after a top prosecutor filed a case for the party s closure last month over alleged links to Kurdish militants.