DEPUTIES PRO-KURDISH PARTY DECIDED TO STAY IN PARLIAMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.12.2009 19:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Deputies from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party,
which was banned last week, have decided to stay in parliament,
the head of the party said on Friday.

The banned Democratic Society Party (DTP) chairman Ahmet Turk said
they would join another pro-Kurdish party (BDP). Turk said democratic
powers, intellectuals, authors and academic circles had underlined
importance of being represented at the parliament in that process.

"Ocalan had a meeting with his lawyers on Wednesday, and Ocalan told
his lawyers that it was not right to leave the parliament ground and
continue this struggle, Turk also said, referring to PKK jailed leader
Abdullah Ocalan.

Earlier on Friday, BDP chairman Demir Celik called on the members of
the outlawed DTP to continue their political life in their party.

The the Constitutional Court found the Democratic Society Party (DTP)
guilty of links with PKK militants.

BDP was formed in 2008 after the court case against the DTP was opened
and is regarded as a potential replacement in the case of a ban.