Professor of International Law and Politics Norman Paech said: “İmralı is the darkest page of Europe in terms of law and human rights” despite reports from European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).Read More
Translated from Gazete Karınca by Ercan Sezgin The history of the Kurds is in a sense the history of resistance. Kurds have been resisting the state system for 5,000 years and the nation-state system for 500 years. They resisted but never won, were defeated but never finished. The only reason why the Kurds have survived […]Read More
Four years on from 4 November 2016, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, former HDP deputy Ms. Çağlar Demirel, the former Mayor of Diyarbakir (Amed) Gültan Kışanak and former HDP İstanbul deputy Sebahat Tuncel spoke out from prison about the detention and arrest operations that had been undertaken against them […]Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) Central Executive Board (MYK) issued a statement on the anniversary of the 4 November political coup: “Democratic politics is stronger than ever, despite all the attacks, with the power and legitimacy it receives from the people. It survives, despite all the obstacles”.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan made a number of statements regarding the situation in Turkey during the party’s group meeting.Read More
World Kobanê Day’ was celebrated on 1 November in cities in Germany and Canada.Read More
Kurdish and German revolutionaries have carried out an act of civil disobedience outside an arms factory in Kiel, Germany.Read More
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council co-chair Besê Hozat has weighed in on the isolation of Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the responsibility of European countries for this isolation.Read More
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Province co-chairs Zeyyat Ceylan and Hülya Alökmen Uyanık, who were detained on 22 October as part of an investigation launched by Diyarbakır Chief Prosecutor’s Office, appeared in court on 30 October after eight days in custody.Read More
Şerali Dereli (61) was reportedly murdered by soldiers in Duranlar (Awyan) village of Esendere region in Hakkari (Colemerg) in Turkey on 29 October. His family claimed that soldiers opened fire on them as they tried to reach his body. After the incident, footage was publicly released that shed further light on the attack.Read More
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