ANKARA, Jan 15 (A.A) - Constitutional Court will listen to Supreme Court Chief Prosecutor Sabih Kanadoglu in the case filed to close People's Democracy Party (HADEP) on Thursday.
The Court will listen to Kanadoglu's verbal statements in HADEP closure case filed on charges that the party became the focus of activities against inseparable integrity of the state and nation.
Vural Savas, the Supreme Court Chief Prosecutor then, filed a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court asking for the closure of HADEP on January 29, 1999.
HADEP administrations presented their pre-defense on April 5, 1999 while Savas expressed his views regarding the merits of the case on April 9, 1999. On June 23, 1999, the party administrators made their final defense against the merits of the case.
Kanadoglu will make his verbal statements on January 17 while HADEP administrators will make their verbal defense on January 30.
Following these two procedures, the Constitutional Court delegation will examine the file and hear the closure case on a determined date.
The indictment claimed that HADEP had organic connection with the terrorist organization PKK. It noted that HADEP was totally under the control of the terrorist organization PKK like People's Labour Party (HEP) and Democracy Party (DEP) which had earlier been closed down.
The indictment said that this organization staged activities in the direction of the orders and instructions of the Central Committee. It claimed that HADEP congresses were turned into grounds where demonstration in favour of Abdullah Ocalan, the head of the terrorist organization, was made.
People who attended seminars organized by HADEP branches and meetings held by youth, woman, health and worker commissions of HADEP were tried to be imposed views like enmity towards the constitutional order and unitary state structure, the indictment said.
The indictment stated, ''acitivities like organizing citizens of Kurdish origin around the terrorist organization PKK, carrying out activities to send militants to mountain quadre of PKK through internal and external terrorist camps are carried out in HADEP provincial and town organizations. Thus, it has been clearly seen that HADEP has turned into 'enlisting units' of the terrorist organization PKK.''
The indictment asked for the closure of HADEP under Article 68 of the Constitution which regulates the conditions ''for a party to become the focus of activities against the indivisable integrity of the state and nation'' on charges that the party acted against Article 78 of the Political Parties Law about ''laws on protection of democratic state order'', Article 79 of the Political Parties Law regulating ''the protection of independence'', Article 80 of the Political Parties Law foreseeing ''the principle of uniqueness of the state'', Article 81 covering ''prevention of creation of minority'', Article 82 foreseeing ''ban of racism and regionalism.''