ANKARA: Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party was fighting for its political survival on Wednesday after a prosecutor asked the country’s top court to shut it down for alleged links to militants waging a deadly insurgency against the state.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long portrayed the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) -- parliament’s third-largest -- as the political front of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The PKK has been waging an insurgency since 1984 that has killed tens of thousands and is recognised as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and its Western allies.