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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Daren Butler

Turkey's pro-Kurdish party submits defence against 'political' case

Turkey's third-largest political party, the pro-Kurdish HDP, said on Tuesday the court case targeting it is the culmination of a political effort to break it up.

A top state prosecutor filed the case against the Democratic Peoples' Party (HDP) in March 2021, seeking a ban over its alleged links to Kurdish militants. The party denies such ties.

The court accepted the indictment in June following a years-long crackdown under President Tayyip Erdogan in which thousands of HDP members have been tried on mainly terrorism-related charges.

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