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Constitutional Court closes pro-Kurdish DTP over ties to PKK
The court also decided to ban several DTP members, including party leader Ahmet Türk, from participating in a political party for five years.
Kılıç said 37 DTP members, including DTP Chairman Ahmet Türk and MP Aysel Tuğluk were banned from politics for five years.
Legislators Türk and Tuğluk will also be expelled from the Parliament after court ruling is published in the Official Gazette.
Chief Public Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya filed a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court on November 16, 2007, asking the closure of DTP since it allegedly became a center of acts against Turkey's inseparable unity.
Founded in 2005, the DTP has currently 21 seats at the parliament. The party won 2009 local elections in nine provinces as Diyarbakır, Batman, Hakkari, Iğdır, Siirt, Şırnak, Tunceli, Bingöl and Van.
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