Turkey Is Trying to Ban the Socialist, Pro-Kurdish HDP
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his far-right allies have begun proceedings to dissolve the left-wing, pro-Kurdish HDP and ban its leaders from political life. Attacks on the Kurdish movement — and its current political expression in Turkey, the HDP — can be considered a constant in Turkish politics. But since 2015 this offensive has only intensified. This all-out war on oppositional forces makes up part of a broader fascization process — one that is increasingly suppressing any democratic space in Turkey.