By Xinhua
Ankara : Chief Prosecutor of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya on Friday filed a lawsuit at Constitutional Court for the closure of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), the semi-official Anatolia new agency reported.
According to the report, prosecutors asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the DTP, which has been accused of backing the banned Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK).
The legal action by the Supreme Court prosecutors came amid heightened tensions caused by Turkey’s threat to launch a cross-border offensive on PKK camps in northern Iraq.
The DTP was founded in 2005 and has its origins in another pro-Kurdish party which was also ordered to disband because of alleged links to the PKK.