İSTANBUL - Nine political parties have denounced the closure case against the Peoples' Democratic Party: “We declare that we will keep waging a struggle for justice with the HDP in the face of the government’s unlawful attack on the entire opposition.”

 

Nine political parties have released a joint statement about the closure case filed against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

 

"The closure case against the HDP aims to disable the opposition; we will not let it happen," the parties have underlined.

 

THIS IS A CONSTITUTIONAL CRIME

 

"The one-man regime, constantly talking about the nation's will and unveiling judicial reforms and human rights actions plans, has taken action to close the Peoples' Democratic Party, which represents the will of millions of voters," the parties have said and briefly added:

 

"There is an attempt to strip hundreds of people, who have no other crime than doing democratic politics, of their most fundamental political rights.

 

"A grave Constitutional crime is being committed. It is quite apparent that the one-man regime, which has put the country into a spiral of death, unemployment and poverty and lost the support of society, wants to destroy the hope for a democratic transition of power.

 

"We, as the institutions of this country in favor of democratic rights and freedoms, are aware that this threat of closure against the HDP targets the entire democratic opposition. The target of this attack is not solely the HDP, but the entire democratic accumulation of the society, which it has created and developed by paying a heavy price. What they try to seize is the will of us all and our rights and freedoms that come under attack.

 

"We declare that we will keep on waging a struggle for justice with the HDP in the face of the government's unlawful attack on the entire opposition for days when we will live in a just and democratic peace."

 

The undersigned political parties: United Revolutionary Party, the Democratic Regions Party, the Labor Party, Labor Movement Party, Socialist Party of the Oppressed, Socialist Refoundation Party, Social Freedom Party, Workers' Party of Turkey, the Green Left Party.