House Plenum approves resolution against effort to ban HDP in Turkey

The Plenary of the House of Representatives has unanimously approved a resolution against efforts to ban the Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) in Turkey, which was submitted by main opposition AKEL and the Green Party.

“The Parliament denounces anti-democratic methods to ban the HDP in Turkey and calls on the Council of Europe to exert the necessary political pressure on the Turkish government and the European Union to take every possible initiative, so that the political strategies against the HDP can be addressed,” it said.

Cyprus parliamentarians also called on the international community to react, especially in case the Constitutional Court of Turkey decides to ban HDP, depriving it, among other things, of the possibility of participating in the next elections.

The MPs also express solidarity for the struggles of the democratic forces in Turkey for democracy, promotion of the rule of law, human rights and political freedoms.

(Source: CNA)

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