262:. In 2016 the ECHR ruled that the speeches and actions by the DTP politicians were not seen as support of Abdullah Öcalan or the Kurdistan Workers' Parties even though the co-presidents of the DTP refused to call the PKK a terrorist organization and ordered Turkey to pay a monetary compensation of €30,000 to each of the two co-chairs.
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banned the party with eleven votes, thus making it a unanimous decision. Kılıç reasoned that there was no difference between the PKK and the DTP and that nowhere in the world had a terrorist organization the right to express itself freely. Additionally to the closure, thirty-seven politicians
112:, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The prosecution also requested a political ban for 221 party members of the DTP. The state prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya repeated his demand for the closure of the party in June 2008.
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31:(PKK). The case was opened in September 2007 and resulted in the closure of the party in December 2009. The DTP was the 25th political party which was banned in the
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stated that there were about 150 trials of DTP politicians which needed to be examined before coming to a conclusion and announced a decision might come after the
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As a result of the verdict, the parties′ properties were transferred to the
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