Turkey Court Accepts Indictment Against HPD Deputies

HDP Co-Chair Figen Yuksekdag (Source: Anadolu Agency)

IZMIR, Turkey (Anadolu Agency)””A court in the western province of Ä°zmir has accepted an indictment against the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) co-chair and two other party lawmakers on terror charges, seeking up to five years in jail, a judiciary source said on November 28.

The Ä°zmir Public Prosecutor’s Office had charged HDP co-chair Figen YüksekdaÄŸ, who is in jail on terror charges, and HDP deputy Erdal AtaÅŸ with “making propaganda for a terrorist organization.”