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On Friday, December 11, a decision was taken at the trial at the Turkish Constitutional Court on closing down the DTP . The decision of the Constitutional Court includes to close down the DTP, to remove from office as MPs the Co-chairman of the DTP Ahmet Turk and the MP of Diyarbakir Aysel Tugluk and to ban 37 members of the DTP from politics for five years.{divide}
In the court case opened on November 16, 2007 by the chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Appeals claiming the closure of the DTP it was claimed that the DTP " has become a focal point of activities against the sovereignty of the state and the indivisible unity of the country and the nation". The MPs of the DTP decided to "return to the people" after the decision to close down their party had been taken unanimously. The DTP, which is represented with 21 MPs in the parliament, will not be present as a parliamentary faction in the parliament after the removal of two of their MPs from office. The co-chairman of the DTP Ahmet Turk stated that it does not make any sense to stay in the parliament as independent MPs, that they do not aiming at forming a new faction but are determinant in their decision to "return to the people".
The closure of the DTP was protested with actions in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan and also in many different places of the world. Demonstrations of thousands of people taking to the streets were attacked by the police and civil fascists. Dozens of Kurdish labourers were wounded and hundreds of persons detained. Finally, a Kurdish patriot was shot and wounded by the police at a protest demonstration in Istanbul and taken wounded to the police station to be interrogated. At the same demonstration, civil fascists attacked the demonstrators with knifes, machetes and truncheons and shot with weapons into the mass.
The closure case took place in a very important process of the national Kurdish freedom struggle accompanied by the continuing actions against the changes of the prison conditions of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan, the civil fascist attacks directed against the DTP offices with Molotov cocktails, stones and truncheons and the assassination of a young Kurdish man called Aydin Erdem by the police at a demonstration. The decision to close down the DTP has shown once more the real meaning of the liquidatory "initiative" plan, of which the colonialist fascist Turkish regime is talking of for month.
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