News Center- The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Law and Human Rights Commission has filed a criminal complaint against the Directorate of Religious Affairs (Turkish: Diyanet) for “inciting the public to hatred and enmity” due to its statements in the petition to be a party of the Kobanê trial.

“We have filed a criminal complaint against the Directorate of Religious Affairs, which requested to be party to the Kobanê Conspiracy Trial with a scandalous petition, for insulting, inciting the public to hatred and enmity, misfeasance in public office and committing hate and discrimination crimes,” the HDP Law and Human Rights Commission has announced.

The Directorate of Religious Affairs submitted a permission to be a party of the Kobanê trial in which 108 people, including former HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, have been tried. “Damaging mosques due to terrorist acts will discredit the state in society,” the Directorate of Religious Affairs wrote in the petition.