Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party condemns ousting of main opposition

By Huseyin Hayatsever

ANKARA, May 25 (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemned on Monday a court ruling that ousted the leadership of the main opposition CHP last week, calling a police operation to evict the leaders from the party’s headquarters a “disgrace to democracy”.

Riot police fired tear gas and forced their way into the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) headquarters in Ankara on Sunday, evicting ousted leader Ozgur Ozel, whose party has rejected the ruling as a “judicial coup” and vowed to fight it.

المصدر: Al-Monitor