Despite the widespread dismissal of HDP mayors and their replacement by government appointed trustees, Kars Municipality – still under the co-chairmanship of Ayhan Bilgen and Şevin Alaca – is carrying out important activities on such issues as nourishment, cooperatives, and women’s rights.Read More
The book ‘Berferin’, which includes the latest poetry of Renas Jiyan, a prolific and an important author of Kurdish literature, has just been released.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) Young Women’s Council organised a workshop to “Take Action!” against harassment, rape and violence towards women.Read More
Written by Uğur Deniz Türeli, Araz, Özçalımlı … Their deaths are the recent ones. Suspicious deaths of soldiers have continued with regularity since the 1990’s. Often, those deaths are officially stated to be either “suicide”, “friendly fire” or “training casualties”. But is this really the case? Unshared data, contradictions and the truth are proof that […]Read More
The first Ordinary Congress of the Anatolian Association for Aid and Solidarity with Families who lost their Relatives (ANYAKAY-DER) was held. Halit Batan and Sultani Yağmekan were elected as co-chairs at the congress. Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair, Leyla Güven, said: “Our work will not stop until Öcalan is free, the prisons are emptied and […]Read More
We talked to Ayhan Bilgen, Kars Municipality Co-mayor and former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) spokesperson about the activities of Kars Municipality. Seda Taşkın Kars Municipality is one of the first municipalities that comes to mind when we talk about examplary municipalism in Turkey. Can you comment? Before the election, we roughly knew what kind of […]Read More
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