Ziya Pir, HDP Diyarbakir deputy, was charged with being a member of a terrorist organization, making propaganda for a terror group and provoking people to commit hate crimes, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said.
The Diyarbakir province's public prosecutor is seeking a prison sentence from between nine and 23 years for Pir, especially for the deputy’s statements describing security forces' operations against the PKK/KCK terrorists as “massacre".
The indictment added that Pir had described the ditches dug up by the terrorist organization to prevent security forces from entering areas controlled by the PKK as an act of a “liberation struggle”. It also said Pir had asked people to support members of the terrorist organization. He also described the terrorist organization members as “guerillas” and “martyr guerillas”, it said.
Pir was detained on Nov. 4 in southeastern Turkey's Diyarbakir province as part of an anti-terrorism probe and was released later under judicial control.