Erdogan coalition partner calls for outlawing pro-Kurdish party - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Dec 17, 2020

Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahceli delivers a speech during his party's group meeting at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in Ankara, on Oct. 02, 2018. — ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party allied with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party has called for the country’s largest pro-Kurdish party to be outlawed.

Devlet Bahceli, head of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), called yesterday for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to be shut down.

Turkey's nationalists threaten AKP alliance with calls to ban pro-Kurdish party

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Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

A demonstrator holds a picture of HDP lawmaker Leyla Guven during a protest against the detention of three opposition lawmakers, in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 6, 2020. - Turkish police on June 4, 2020 detained three opposition lawmakers after the parliament stripped them of their jobs, triggering furious charges that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government is seeking to further consolidate authoritarian rule. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Diego Cupolo

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