Turkish news portals announced on Tuesday that a prosecutor demanded video recordings of the DTP congress for examination. The investigation will be carried out against party officials, on charges of “disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization” and “being a member of a terrorist organization.”
The DTP held its third extraordinary congress on Sunday in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. The party called for swift changes to the Constitution and dialogue with Öcalan, the leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who is now imprisoned on an island near İstanbul. The peaceful atmosphere of the congress was disturbed when some DTP supporters, who masked their faces, chanted slogans in favor of Öcalan and the PKK. The pro-Kurdish party has weathered several other investigations in the past and has been accused of acting as the political extension of the terrorist PKK after it failed to denounce the terrorist acts of the separatist group.
