The series of arrests continues in Turkey, where police arrested 18 people, including leaders of the People’s Democratic Party, on Monday morning, in 4 Turkish states accused of belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The Diyarbakir Security Directorate carried out a simultaneous operation within Diyarbakir and in some areas of the states of Izmir, Antalya and Mardin.
THE media state officials also confirmed the arrest of officials in party subsidiary centers in the four states and the confiscation of books, organizational journals, organizational documents and digital materials.
“systematic policy”
For its part, the Kurdish majority party stressed that the arrests are only part of a systematic policy pursued by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ally, the Nationalist Movement Party, to permanently close the party.
He also considered it a political step to tighten the screws on the opposition in view of the 2023 elections.
843 pages of indictment
It is interesting to note that on 21 June the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Court of Cassation had presented an indictment of 843 pages, calling for a political ban on all 451 party politicians.
Subsequently, the Constitutional Court upheld the indictment, and formally handed it over to the HDP on July 9, and gave the party 60 days to present its first defense, but the party applied on August 11. to grant you an additional deadline, and the court granted your request.
Additionally, the HDP’s 173-page defense report was prepared by its legal and human rights committees.
Dressed to close the party
The minutes stated that the closure case against the HDP was political, with lawyers calling attention to the “critical role that HDP plays in Turkish democracy”, noting that the case was a move by the Justice and Development Party to the government and its ally MHP to strengthen their “directives”. policies “.
In the meantime, the Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, Bakir Shaheen, will present his opinion on the merits of the case to the Constitutional Court, and a report will be drawn up on the merits.
After distributing the report to the members of the Court, the closing of the party will be discussed, with the final decision taken by a majority of two thirds of the members of the Constitutional Court Committee of fifteen members.
The third largest party in Turkey
Furthermore, the Constitutional Court can then order the definitive dissolution of the party or to deprive it in everything or in part of the assistance of the state treasury.
If the court decided to permanently dissolve the party, the people who according to the indictment would have caused the closure of the party (69 people who would have acted in criminal mode) will be banned from politics for five years and cannot be founders or members of any other party.
Interestingly, HDP was founded in 2012 and is the third largest party in Turkey: After winning 80 seats in the elections, Erdogan insisted that the results be canceled and returned in the fall of 2015.
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