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Turkish state moves to shut down opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party on terror charges
Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a human rights advocate and lawmaker from the People's Democratic Party (HDP) and his colleagues after the parliament stripped his parliamentary seat, in Ankara today

TURKEY’S Supreme Court of Appeals filed a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court today demanding the closure of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), as demanded by the neofascist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Chief Public Prosecutor Bekir Sahin filed the case, which claims that the HDP aimed “to destroy and eliminate the indivisible unity of the state with its nation through their statements and actions.”

In a written statement, Mr Sahin claimed that the HDP acted “together with the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] terrorist organisaton and … is an extension of the organisaton.”

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