Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has unleashed another assault on the country’s battered democratic institutions targeting, yet again, members of the left-wing HDP (Peoples Democratic Party). More than 80 of the party’s MPs, mayors and prominent activists have been targeted for arrest.

This comes after he prevented 90 democratically elected HDP mayors and deputy mayors from taking up their positions, or forcibly removing them from office, in 2019. Of these, 46 remain in jail.

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