Banning the HDP may help President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his coalition partners win at the parliamentary election, but it is a gamble
’s “recruitment agency”. If found guilty, they will be banned from holding elected office for five years. In a parallel case, the prosecutor has asked for the party’s closure.
Mr Erdogan and his allies insist such trials are purely judicial, and free from political interference. His opponents disagree. They say that the courts have been almost entirely captured since a coup attempt against the president in 2016 and the huge purge of the public sector that followed. More than a quarter of Turkey’s judges and prosecutors were sacked and replaced, and its top courts gradually filled with loyalists.
A succession of Kurdish parties have been banned in Turkey over the past three decades. But no previous one has come close to the success that thehas enjoyed, and it is for that reason, its supporters say, that the cases being brought against it are so comprehensive. “This is a wide liquidation decision,” said Saruhan Oluc, chairman of the party’s parliamentary group. “To try to close a party that is heading into elections is a strike against the democratic space.
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