Turkey’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has reaffirmed that the Kurdish opposition People’s Democracy Party (HDP) should be «permanently outlawed» on the grounds that it is the «political arm of the terrorist group Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).»
The chief prosecutor of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals, Bekir Sahin, has defended before the Constitutional Court the filing of his lawsuit, seeking the banning of the party.
Sahin has indicated that the case is now in the hands of the court in question, which will have to issue a verdict before the elections scheduled for 2023. «We have already finished our part. We have presented all the evidence. From our perspective, the process is over and the rest is up to them,» he has said.
The HDP itself is scheduled to present its defense to the court within 30 days, although it may request an extension of this deadline, according to reports in the daily ‘Hurriyet’.
The prosecutor’s words come shortly after the Constitutional Court blocked the accounts of the party, the third largest in the country. The HDP was scheduled to receive 539 million liras (about 27 million euros) to finance election campaigns for the general and presidential elections scheduled for mid-2023.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
