Amnesty International said in a statement that the "HDP closure would violate rights to freedom of expression and association."

The statement added that "a decision to close Turkey’s second largest opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), following a lawsuit at the country’s Constitutional Court, would result in multiple violations of the rights to freedom of expression and association. As the country prepares for crucial elections in the aftermath of the devastating 6 February earthquakes, an order to close HDP and a political ban on several hundred current and former HDP members would be in clear breach of Turkey’s international obligations."

Amnesty underlined that thus far, Turkey "has failed to implement rulings by the European Court in which human rights violations were found based on the closure of political parties or other restrictions imposed on people associated with them. These rulings include cases where the authorities lifted HDP lawmakers' immunities, allowing them to be unjustly prosecuted, as well as cases in which the anti-terrorism law has been used to unduly restrict the rights to freedom of expression and association."