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Turkish Attorney General Bekir Shaheen submitted a petition, as part of a lawsuit filed yesterday, to the Supreme Constitutional Court, demanding the banning of the “People’s Democratic Party” accused of violating article 68 of the Constitution.
In the attached indictment, which exceeded 600 pages, Shaheen accuses the party of “violating the rules of democratic and international law and of colluding with the PKK.” The indictment included allegations against leaders and members of the HDP, including current and former presidents.
Shaheen also called for the confiscation of the assets of “democratic peoples” and depriving them of the assistance of the Ministry of Finance and Finance, which is granted annually to political parties represented in Parliament.
Previously, the Turkish parliament revoked the membership of Çırcıolu, belonging to the same party, after a ruling issued by the Court of Cassation against him last February, which was serving him two years and six months in prison, accused of “propagating a terrorist organization “. ”
This came in the context of a tweet he posted on Twitter, in which he said that the Turks who were killed by the PKK in northern Iraq would have been killed if the Turkish government had made its efforts to save their lives.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accuses the party of being a “political front” for the “PKK”.
And while the “relations with Turkey” file is on the agenda of the European Union summit, to be held on March 25 and 26, to discuss regional issues, the European Parliament rapporteur on Turkish affairs, Nacho Sánchez Love said: “What, what reaction does Turkey expect now from the European Union? A positive agenda? ».
Erdogan, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, are expected to discuss these measures tomorrow in a videoconference, according to media sources.
Today, Germany, in turn, condemned Ankara’s security campaign against the “Peoples’ Democratic Party”. A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry, Heiko Maas, said: “The withdrawal from the mandate of MP Faruk Cırcıolu and the prosecutions against a large number of HDP MPs and their members are part of a development that raises questions about the status of law in Turkey. “And he considered that” banning a party can only be the last resort in any democracy. ”
For its part, the United States warned yesterday that Ankara’s efforts to dissolve the party would undermine democracy in Turkey. The US State Department said this “would unnecessarily undermine the will of the Turkish electorate and the future of democracy in Turkey, and deprive millions of Turkish citizens of their elected representation.”
On the other hand, the Turkish Foreign Ministry criticized what it described as “external interference in internal affairs.” He urged everyone to wait “for the issuance of the judgment of the Constitutional Court.”
It is worth noting that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is the third largest political faction in the country and one of the five parties currently represented in the Turkish Parliament.
