"PARTY CLOSURES AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS MAY ALL OCCUR IN FALL
By David Romano
Monday, June 23, 2008
On June 20 the Democratic Society Party (DTP) requested and received extra time to prepare its defense in the closure case it faces. The closure case against the DTP was launched by Chief Public Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya in November 2007. The DTP stands accused of praising and aiding the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), as well as serving as “a center of activities aimed at damaging the independence of the state and the indivisible integrity of its territory and nation” (The New Anatolian, June 17). The party was supposed to submit its defense to Turkey’s Constitutional Court on June 26 but was able to postpone its official defense hearing to September 16, claiming that the complexity and extensive nature of its defense case required more preparation time (Turkish Daily News, June 21)."
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