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The December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey were five〔(Two killed in Kurdish ban protests )〕 days of protests in Turkey that ensued after a December 11, 2009 ruling by the Constitutional Court of Turkey that banned pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), after finding them guilty of having links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)〔(Kurdish unrest erupts in Turkey after DTP ban )〕 and spreading "terrorist propaganda."〔(TURKEY: THE AKP WINS THE GENERAL ELECTION )〕 ==Background== The DTP was formed in 2005 with a merger of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party, the Democratic People's Party (DEHAP), and the newly found Democratic Society Movement (DTH) that had been founded by former Democracy Party (DEP) MPs Leyla Zana, Orhan Doğan, Hatip Dicle and Selim Sadak after their release from prison in 2004. After being formed, the party called on the PKK to lay down its arms. The PKK responded by declaring a unilateral cease-fire that lasted until September 20, 2005.〔(Bumps in Road to EU Accession Expose Cyprus, Kurdish Potholes )〕 The DEHAP had won 6.2 percent of the vote in the 2002 general election, failing to meet the 10% election threshold and thus failing to win any seats in parliament. So for the 2007 general election the DTP fielded its candidates as independents.〔(Opposition for the Sake of Opposition? Polarized Pluralism in Turkish Politics )〕 In total, 726 independent candidates won 1,835,486 votes, a total of 5.24% and 26 out of 550 seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.〔(HE REAL WINNERS AND LOSERS OF TURKEY’S JULY 2007 ELECTIONS )〕 21 independents then formed a DTP faction in parliament.〔(Political parties in Turkey )〕 The election was however mainly a disappointment for the DTP as majority of votes in the Kurdish-dominated regions went to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Development Party (AKP).〔 The party however performed well during the March 29, 2009 local elections, winning 2,116,684 votes or 5.41% and doubling its number of governors from four to eight, increasing its amount of mayors from 32 to 51.〔(Ruling party main loser in local ballot )〕 For the first time they won a majority in the southeast and aside from the Batman Province, Hakkâri Province, Diyarbakır Province and Şırnak Province which DEHAP had won in 2004, the DTP managed to win Van Province, Siirt Province and Iğdır Provinces from the AKP.〔(LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS REVEAL A FRACTURED TURKEY ), April 10, 2009〕 After the March 2009 election, approximately 50 DTP members were arrested. Between April and August 2009, more than 500 DTP members were taken into custody and 267 were indicted. According to the Turkish Human Rights Association, the government carried out three crackdowns against the DTP between April and October 2009 in which 1,000 people were detained, including 450 who were not told what they were being charged with.〔 After surviving a closure case in 2007,〔 on December 11, 2009, the Constitutional Court of Turkey voted to ban the DTP, ruling that the party had links to the PKK〔 and was guilty of spreading "terrorist propaganda".〔 Chairman Ahmet Türk and co-chair Aysel Tuğluk were expelled from Parliament, and they and 35 other party members, including Leyla Zana, were banned from joining any political party for five years. The 19 DTP members that remained in parliament joined the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), which had already been formed in anticipation of the ban.〔(Democratic Society Party (Democratik Toplum Partisi, DTP) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「December 2009 Kurdish protests in Turkey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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