[11] The Constitutional Court's decision was based on a judgment that she and the DTP have affiliations with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), an organization that does not disavow violence for attaining political objectives.
[12] In 2007 she was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment over the distribution of party leaflets in the Kurdish language, which is forbidden according to the law, which requires all political literature be in Turkish.
[9] On 5 February 2009 Tuğluk was sentenced again, this time to 18 months in prison by a court in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir for violating anti-terrorism laws by referring to PKK fighters as 'heroes to some' at a rally in 2006.
It was argued that she took orders from Abdullah Öcalan, made statements to media outlets close to the PKK and attended funerals of “terrorists”.
HDP's Ümit Dede statement highlighted the contradictions in the medical reports and that along with her lawyers have submitted an objection to the "Supreme Board of the Forensic Medicine Institution".