Turkey's top prosecutor tells court to close pro-Kurdish party DTP
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya gave his verbal arguments on the closure case against the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) on Tuesday before the country’s highest court. The DTP should be closed as it has been supporting terrorism, Yalcinkaya told the court. (UPDATED)
The DTP is in operations against the basic principles of the constitution and the integrity of the state, Yalcinkaya told in the court.
The party should be closed as it has been supporting terrorism; it has even been under the control of terrorism, he added.
The court will hear the party’s counter arguments on Sept. 16.
Yalcinkaya last year lodged a formal application to the Constitutional Court to close the DTP on the grounds that it had become “a center of activities aimed at damaging the independence of the state and the indivisible integrity of its territory and nation,” after the DTP called for autonomy for Kurds in the southeast of the country.
After the chief prosecutor makes a verbal statement and the DTP makes a verbal defense, a rapporteur assigned by the In this phase, the chief prosecutor can submit further evidence and the DTP can submit additional defense material to the rapporteur. The rapporteur's report will then be distributed to court members. Afterwards, Constitutional Court Chairman Hasim Kilic will set a date and the court will start hearing the case on its merits. According to the Turkish Constitution, at least seven of the 11 members of the court have to vote in favor of closure in order for the court to rule to close a political party.