Founding congress of pro-Kurdish party takes place in Turkey
17:02 / 02/01/2010

Founding congress of a new pro-Kurdish party, Peace and Democracy, has been opened at the Ahmet Taner exhibition complex in Ankara, Turkey.

The portrait of Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader Abdullah Ocalan and flags of banned PKK are hanging at the complex.

Before the congress started, the delegates refused to sing Turkey’s national anthem, Turkish Milliyet reports.

Cevahir Bayandur, Political Council member, opened the congress speaking in Kurdish. The 457 delegates participating in the congress are expected to elect party’s secretary general.

The party has to replace pro-Kurdish Democratic Society party dissolved pursuant to the Turkish Constitutional Court’s verdict.

A.G.