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ECHR ask Turkey to answer five questions
on pro-Kurdish DTP party closure
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The European Court of Human Rights
Turkish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Chairman
Ahmet Turk speaks to the press at the DTP
headquarters in Ankara, capital of Turkey, Dec. 11,
2009. Turkish Constitutional Court, the country's
top court, decided on Friday to ban the Democratic
Society Party (DTP) on charges of its ties with the
illegal Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). Photo: Xinhua .
Turkey has until the end of
April to answer to the European Court of Human
Rights
April 10, 2012
ISTANBUL,— As Istanbul Chief Public
Prosecutor's Office’s application to Supreme Court
of Prosecution to investigate the Peace and
Democracy Party has been a matter of debate, the
European Court of Human Rights accepted the appeal
of ten people whose “actions” ultimately contributed
to the closure of the former Kurdish party
Democratic Society Party (DTP).
The ECHR, has sent five questions to the Turkish
government to be answered before the end of April,
and will then reach a verdict in accordance with the
answers of these questions.
Within this framework, the ECHR asked Turkey to
answer the following questions; “Do the DTP
executives actually made any calls or statements for
‘eliminating the constitutional order’ which were
the basis for the closure of the party? Do words
used in the calls and statements of these
politicians undermine ‘democracy’? Do the executives
used violence? Is the closure of the party a
proportional action? Is to strip of their mandate
freely elected deputies an appropriate action?”
Giving information about the procedure, BDP Group
Deputy Chairman Hasip Kaplan criticized Istanbul
Chief Public Prosecutor's Office’s case against BDP
at this critical stage.
Kaplan added that “The deputies of the BDP, created
as an umbrella party of elected independent
deputies,www.ekurd.net
will not form a new party in the event of the BDP
closure because the most recent constitutional
amendments don’t allow to strip deputies of their
mandate if their party has been closed.”
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