Sarah Glynn The long march for democracy and freedom recently completed its very first Scottish manifestation.Read More
The sit-in protest in Strasbourg in France, which has been organised within the scope of the ‘End Isolation, Fascism, Occupation; Time for Freedom’ initiative, has entered its fifth day. The initiative had been launched by the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council on 12 September.Read More
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) held a caucus on 10-11 October in İstanbul. The meeting was dedicated to all the people who lost their lives in the 10 October 2015 Ankara Massacre.Read More
The sentences that were handed down to nine defendants in the 10 October Ankara Massacre Case were upheld by Ankara’s Regional Court of Justice in Turkey.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Mithat Sancar, during a party meeting, drew attention to the ongoing detentions of party members and former party members on the grounds of their involvement in the 6-8 October 2014 Kobani Protests. Sancar stated those in governance are actually responsible for the conditions that led to the protests in […]Read More
The 12th October will mark one year since Hevrin Xelef, one of the founders of the Syrian Future Party and then Secretary General of the Future Syria party, was murdered when the Turkish state launched a military operation in northern Syria.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Urfa province Co-Mayor Emine Çetiner was detained whilst she was attending a commemoration of the 2015 Ankara ISIS suicide bombing. Çetiner was in Suruç district of Urfa for the commemoration event and taken to the provincial gendarmerie command centre.Read More
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Police block 10 October commemoration of the 2015 ISIS suicide
Two Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bombers had consecutively attacked ‘Labour-Peace-Democracy’ march in front of Ankara’s train station on 10 October 2015 in Turkey. Over one hundred people were killed and over five hundred were injured as a result of the attacks. Following the suicide attacks, the police had attacked people as […]Read More
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has been held in İmralı F High-Security Prison since 1999. He has been kept in isolation for years, serving aggravated life imprisonment. The Freedom for Öcalan Initiative has appealed to “all institutions, intellectuals, individuals and organizations that support peace, democracy, justice and freedom […]Read More
Nine more People’s Democratic Party (HDP) politicians were detained in Kars (Qers) in Turkey after being arrested. The total number of arrests since operations began on 1 October has risen to twelve. It is expected that five people, including Mayor Şevin Alaca, will be referred to the courthouse today.Read More
