The Erdoğan government in Turkey has used a corrupted judiciary to carry out a sustained campaign of persecution against the HDP over many years. 

The Socialist Alliance of Australia joined the global calls for an end to the repression of the HDP.

In a previous statement, the Socialist Alliance said: "The anti-democratic and hate-mongering regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is determined to suppress the HDP and all other expressions of popular democracy in Turkey and has used a corrupted judiciary to carry out a sustained campaign of repression against the HDP and its allies over many years.

The HDP's leaders, parliamentarians, mayors and other local government representatives have been removed from office and imprisoned after they were democratically elected.

Even more rank and file activists of the HDP have been brutally assaulted and imprisoned.

The Erdoğan regime seeks to criminalise the HDP for standing up for peace, democracy and justice – and particularly for speaking up for the rights of the Kurdish people."