Turkey’s third-largest political party, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), said on Tuesday the court case targeting it is the culmination of a political effort to break it up. A top state prosecutor filed the case against the HDP in March 2021, seeking a ban over its alleged links to Kurdish militants. The party denies such ties. The court accepted the indictment in June following a years-long crackdown under President Tayyip Erdogan in which thousands of HDP members have been tried on mainly terrorism-related charges. Aside from closing the party, the indictment also calls for 4…