The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-Chair Cemil Bayık, in an interview with Fırat News Agency (ANF), appealed to people to campaign for the release and freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, and not just for an improvement in the isolation conditions that have been imposed upon him in prison.Read More
Medyanews Exclusive The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) won 105 municipalities in local elections on 11 September 2014. The Turkish Interior Ministry appointed trustees to 95 HDP municipalities in 2016.Read More
Kars (Qers) trustee, governor Türker Öksüz, who attained a position in the Kars Municipality, annulled the city council and deleted the municipality’s Kurdish-language social media account.Read More
Detention operations and targeted suppression policies have been used against members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) over recent days in Turkey.Read More
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Executive Committee member Murat Karayılan spoke to Radio Denge Welat about recent assaults on Kurdish citizens in Turkey. Karayılan referred to the campaign entitled “End Isolation, Fascism, Invasion: It is time to ensure freedom”, which was launched by the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) on 12 September. He said that the campaign […]Read More
Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has been banned from meeting his lawyers for six months. On 23 September, Öcalan, Ömer Hayri Konar, Veysi Aktaş and Hamili Yıldırım were banned from meeting with legal representatives by the decree of the Bursa Second Office Judge of Execution.Read More
The timing of the latest operations on 26 October against HDP politicians regarding the Kobani Protests, which happened six years ago, brought many questions to mind. Why six years later, and why now?Read More
“404 Citizens” who comprise intellectuals, writers, human rights activists and lawyers have signed a statement (‘Call for democracy and justice’) criticising the operations against the People’s Democratic Party (HDP). They have also made an appeal to unite around the HDP.Read More
The leader of the Kurdistan Communist Party (KKP), Sinan Çiftyürek, called for unity between Kurdish intellectuals, writers, democrats, and politicians.Read More
Democratic Kurdish Party Secretary General Cemal Şêx Baqî criticized the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP’s) military shipment to the border of Rojava. “The KDP helps Turkey’s Rojava oriented plan”, he said.Read More
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