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Turkey Is Trying to Ban the Socialist, Pro-Kurdish HDP
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his far-right allies have begun proceedings to dissolve the left-wing, pro-Kurdish HDP and ban its leaders from political life. The war on the HDP must be resisted.