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Fri 12 Dec 2009Turkey bans pro-kurdish party
Turkey's top court today closed the only pro-Kurdish party in parliament for having links to PKK Kurdish rebels in a ruling that could hamper the nation's faltering EU membership bid.
The European Union had warned that banning the party would violate Kurdish rights and the judicial move against the party could also set back the Turkish government's drive to end a conflict with militant Kurdish separatists.
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