ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Kurds voiced anger on Saturday over a court attempt to ban a pro-Kurdish political party, turning their Newroz spring festival celebrations across the country into a show of defiance.
In the culmination of a years-long crackdown, a prosecutor filed a case this week to close the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) over alleged links to Kurdish militants. The HDP, parliament's third-largest party, denies such ties and called the move a "political coup".
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