HDP closure case: Indictment ‘being prepared again’

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Bekir Şahin, the Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, spoke at a program on Haber Global news channel yesterday (June 1).

In response to a question regarding the indictment issued against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for its closure and returned to the Court of Cassation by the Constitutional Court due to procedural deficiencies, Şahin said, "We are preparing the indictment again."

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What happened?

The Court of Cassation launched an inquiry against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on March 2, 2021 and Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation Bekir Şahin applied to the Constitutional Court on March 17, 2021, demanding the closure of the HDP.

In its session on March 31, the General Assembly of the Constitutional Court conducted the first examination on the indictment lodged by Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation Bekir Şahin.

Finding procedural deficiencies in the indictment, the General Assembly ruled that the application should be returned to the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Cassation to rectify the deficiencies.

The Constitutional Court rapporteur assigned with examining the HDP indictment requested on March 30 that the indictment be returned to the Court of Cassation due to procedural deficiencies. (KÖ/SD)