Erdogan’s Last-Ditch Power Play – Turkey’s president cracks down on a major pro-Kurdish opposition party.

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Turkey is moving to close its second-largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in what is widely seen as perhaps the last bolt for a government that has exhausted all other options as its public support craters and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) faces an uphill battle in the next national elections.