Erdogan coalition partner calls for outlawing pro-Kurdish party
Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahceli said Turkey's Constitution should be changed to ban the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party.
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.
“Any party organization that takes as its reference ethnic separatism and terrorism should not be allowed,” Bahceli tweeted. He continued, “If necessary, let us change the constitution, if necessary, reform the Political Parties Law and the Turkish Penal Code, let’s stop this bleeding wound.”
“The fight against poisonous vermin is a great service to national dignity,” Bahceli wrote in a subsequent tweet. “Every political party should choose a side.”
