31/10/2024 – #DailyNews – #MedyaNews
📍 Turkey’s Interior Ministry appoints trustee to run Esenyurt after pro-Kurdish mayor’s arrest on Wednesday. Opposition parties launch nationwide protests against what they call a “coup against local democracy”.
📍Syrian Kurdish journalist Sulayman Ahmed, detained over a year by Iraqi Kurdistan’s KDP forces, faces a three-year prison term on espionage charges. After months incommunicado, lawyers have filed a complaint urging international support for a fair trial.
📍Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan excluded the PKK from Kurdish talks, emphasising “unity” and reiterating a “brotherhood” rhetoric, yet without offering any specific rights or reforms for Kurds.
📍KON-MED, a Kurdish diaspora organisation representing the Kurdish community in Germany, has condemned Turkey’s handling of Öcalan’s isolation and called for his release to foster a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.
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