HDP closure case | MP Semra Güzel’s pictures added to file as ‘additional evidence’

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The Adıyaman Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has reportedly sent two folders to the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Cassation to be added to the file of the court case seeking the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) by the Constitutional Court.

The folders contain a series of documents and statements, including the recently revealed pictures of HDP Diyarbakır MP Semra Güzel with a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

While it is indicated by the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office of the Court of Cassation that the related documents may be "additional evidence for the closure of the HDP" as per the Article 69 of the Constitution, HDP Vice Co-Chair Ümit Dede has spoken to Mezopotamya Agency (MA) about the issue and said that no notification has been made to the party.

HDP's Ümit Dede has noted that if additional evidence is added to the closure case, the party should be notified about this.

What happened?

The pictures of HDP Diyarbakır MP Semra Güzel with Volkan Bora, who was killed in an airstrike of the Turkish Armed Forces in 2017, have recently been revealed. Semra Güzel has said that Bora was his "fiance" and the picture was "taken during the resolution process".

Saying that she was not affiliated with any political party when the pictures were taken, Güzel has asked why no investigation has been launched so far into the pictures found on Volkan Bora. She has argued that the pictures taken 5 years ago are used as a "plot" against her.

A summary of proceedings has been issued against Güzel to lift her legislative immunity and sent to the Joint Parliamentary Commission. (HA/SD)