ISTANBUL: A Turkish court has barred a leader of the main pro-Kurdish party from leaving the country, accusing her of “belonging to an armed terrorist organization,” the state-run Anadolu news agency reported Saturday.

Figen Yuksekdag, co-chair of the leftist People’s Democratic Party (HDP), was also accused of “terrorist propaganda” and banned from leaving Turkey “because of activities that indicate she might flee” abroad, according to Anadolu.

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