Reuters
Turkey's justice minister warned the country's main pro-Kurdish DEM party on Wednesday that it would face the risk of legal action, and even a closure case like its predecessor, if it did not distance itself from Kurdish militants. DEM, parliament's third largest party, was established last year as a successor to the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which is facing the prospect of closure over alleged militant links in a court case following a years-long crackdown. "In the past, closure cases were opened against parties for supporting terrorism," Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc told reporters in Ankara, noting that some parties had been banned and that other cases were ongoing.