Press Release: For immediate release

12. December, 2009 The EUTCC strongly deplores the Turkish Constitutional Court’s decision to ban the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP).  So far 37 members of the DTP have been banned from official politics. DTP was the first pro-Kurdish party...

EUTCC Patron Leyla Zana banned by Constitutional Court, Turkey

The banning followed the closure of the Democratic Society’s Party (DTP). The decision imposed on 37 leading DTP members, among them the party’s prominent chairman Ahmet Türk and the legislator Aysel Tugluk, along with 34 other party members. The...

PES CONDEMNS TURKEY’S DECISION TO BAN THE DTP

As part of this ruling, 37 members and executives of the party were banned, including its leader, Mr. Ahmet Turk.  Although 19 members of the party still sit in the Parliament, they have lost their official group status and consequently have only a marginal...

GUE/NGL CONDEMNS THE BANNING OF DTP

The Political Group of the United European Left/Nordic Green Left in the European Parliament strongly condemns the decision of December 11 of the Constitutional Court of Turkey to ban the Democratic Society Party – DTP, allegedly because it has developed into a...
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