{"id":4268,"date":"2008-09-16T21:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/16\/pro-kurdish-party-fights-against-closure\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:28:09","slug":"pro-kurdish-party-fights-against-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/09\/16\/pro-kurdish-party-fights-against-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Kurdish party fights against closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey: The chairman of Turkey&#8217;s leading pro-Kurdish party on Tuesday asked the country&#8217;s highest court not to disband his party, rejecting accusations that it was linked to a separatist rebel group.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Society Party, which has 21 seats in parliament, was facing closure by the Constitutional Court on charges of becoming a &#8220;focal point&#8221; of separatist activities.<\/p>\n<p>The military, meanwhile, has been pondering how to deal with separatist Kurdish rebels and reportedly is prepared to ask the government to extend the parliamentary mandate for a new possible cross-border offensive against their bases in northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/09\/16\/europe\/EU-Turkey-Kurdish-Party.php\">Turkey&#8217;s pro-Kurdish party fights against closure &#8211; International Herald Tribune<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA, Turkey: The chairman of Turkey&#8217;s leading pro-Kurdish party on Tuesday asked the country&#8217;s highest court not to disband his party, rejecting accusations that it was linked to a separatist rebel group. The Democratic Society Party, which has 21 seats in parliament, was facing closure by the Constitutional Court on charges of becoming a &#8220;focal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":46413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}