Turkey’s chief prosecutor on Monday submitted an expanded indictment seeking to shut the leading pro-Kurdish political party, risking a new human-rights clash with the U.S. a week before the countries’ presidents meet.
The U.S. described an initial indictment against the HDP filed in March as designed to “unduly subvert the will of Turkish voters. Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meet in Brussels next Monday. The Turkish lira pared gains against the dollar after the announcement.
