Democratic People’s Party (HDP) carried the curfews to the Constitutional Court. In the application, it is demanded that an injunction is taken against the arbitrary curfews with no legal ground.
HDP noted that the curfews violate 13th, 15th and 23rd articles of the Constitution and the Article 5 of Protocol No.1 of European Convention on Human Rights and appealed to the Constitutional Court.
Member of HDP Law Commission and Adana MP Meral Danış Beştaş, through right to individual application, wrote a petition which demands that curfews are immediately lifted. It is stated that these curfews, which have been declared by governorship, threaten the right to life.
Beştaş: An unmentioned coup
Speaking to Agos about her application, Meral Danış Beştaş stated that the applications to domestic courts remained inconclusive.
“We tabled a motion for parliamentary investigation, but it is declined. There is no result from the applications to administrative or domestic courts. Constitutional court is the only domestic remedy left. We are faced with completely arbitrary decisions. The governorships think that they have the right to imprison people in their houses and prevent them from performing their daily activities. The constitution doesn’t give such a right to governors. The scope of the curfews widens day by day. Today, we are in Diyarbakir and we cannot go outside. The attacks are unbelievable. Yesterday, the teachers made to go on leave and the healthcare personal is on call in Şırnak. They don’t mention it, but this situation is worse than coup. The Constitutional Court is the top authority and it has to stop this situation. Our application is clear: take an injunction and stop it.”
Beştaş stated that if the Constitutional Court wouldn’t do anything within couple of days, they will carry this issue to international mechanisms.
