The motion before Turkey's Constitutional Court to ban the pro-Kurdish HDP : an example of the entanglement of politics and the judiciary, and a bad omen for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish conflict

Zusammenfassung: On 2 March 2021, the Turkish Prosecutor General’s office opened investigations into the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). On 17 March it filed its application with the Constitutional Court to have the party banned. The Prosecutor General further sought to prohibit 687 HDP officials from engaging in political activities for five years. This would have amounted to excluding almost all HDP politicians from politics, and thus closing political channels for discussing and solving the Kurdish question for years. On 31 March the Constitutional Court rejected the application due to procedural flaws. However, on 6 June, the Prosecutor General’s office announced that it had filed a further motion to ban the party. This move to prohibit civilian and non-violent Kurdish politics risks augmenting the illegal Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and perpetuating the Kurdish conflict. It reveals the entanglement of politics and the judi­ciary in Turkey, and highlights structural deficits in the Turkish Constitution

Object Details

• Alternative title: Der Antrag auf das Verbot der prokurdischen HDP beim türkischen Verfassungsgericht
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (7 Seiten)
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: "English version of SWP-Aktuell 44/2021"

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: SWP comment ; 2021, no. 38 (June 2021) ; SWP comment ; 2021, no. 38 (June 2021)

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik
• Keyword: Innenpolitik ; Politischer Konflikt ; Kurden ; Internationaler Konflikt ; Rechtsprechende Gewalt ; Interdependenz ; Verflechtung ; Wirkung ; Auswirkung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Berlin
• (who): SWP
• (when): [June 2021]
• Creator: Can, Osman
• Contributor: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik

Further information

• DOI: 10.18449/2021C38
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023062209320887768329
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 11:02 AM CEST