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HDP election rally in Diyarbakır in 2018
[ Mahmut Bozarsan / Creative Commons]
TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) declared today that it is fighting for “the democracy, peace, equality and freedom of the country” as a mass trial of members reopened in Ankara.
Co-chair Pervin Buldan said the so-called Kobane trial, in which more than 100 senior HDP figures have been indicted, is an attempt to eliminate Kurds from the political arena.
“Today we are living in a period in which important actors in Kurdish political history are being charged for an indictment created for political reasons,” she said ahead of yesterday’s hearing.
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