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.
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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
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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.

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