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Turkey s pro-Kurdish party closure case worries U S , Europe
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Publishing date: Mar 17, 2021 • 4 days ago • 2 minute read •
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ANKARA Turkey’s parliament increased pressure on a pro-Kurdish opposition party on Wednesday by stripping a prominent member of his seat over a criminal conviction for spreading “terrorist propaganda” in a social media post.
The move against Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a human rights advocate, dealt a new blow to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) which nationalist allies of President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party (AKP) want banned over what they say are militant links.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - A top Turkish prosecutor filed a case with the constitutional court on Wednesday demanding the closure of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in the culmination of a years-long clampdown on parliament’s third largest party.
Pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Omer Gergerlioglu and the other lawmakers from his party hold a protest after the Turkish Parliament stripped him of his MP status during a session at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer
Turkey has a long history of shutting down political parties which it regards as a threat and has in the past banned a series of other pro-Kurdish parties.
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