Turkey’s Constitutional Court is currently in the process of deciding whether to close the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which has 56 Members of Parliament, many of whom are already incarcerated.
If closed, the HDP will be the eighth pro-Kurdish party in Turkey to be removed from the legislative process.
Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton strongly recommends that if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan or his AKP Party corrupt the electoral process in the upcoming elections — on the heels of other malign actions — Turkey should be removed from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), based on “the international law principle of rebus sic stantibus – ‘as things now stand’… Mr. Erdogan hasn’t been behaving like an ally.”
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On January 5, Turkey’s Constitutional Court signaled the upcoming closure of the party. The court temporarily blocked the transfer of aid money from the Treasury’s that due for the HDP. The prosecutor had submitted the request and alleged that the HDP’s “organic ties” with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had continued during the closure case of the HDP, filed in 2021. This verdict came just days before the funds were due to be wired to the party’s bank account.
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