Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party has nominated imprisoned politician Gültan Kışanak and former Human Rights Association Co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan for the Ankara mayoral candidacy.
A Turkish court has ruled that the 1993 arson attack which killed nine members of a Kurdish family in what is known as the Vartinis Massacre, was not committed with political, racial, or religious intent.
Kurdish must be formally recognised as a language of Turkey, Kurdish Writers Association Co-Chair Rêdûr Dîjle has said, as news emerged that despite five-figure annual enrolments only 132 Kurdish teachers have been appointed in the past 12 years.
And an ‘International Delegation Against Isolation and for Resolution of the Kurdish Issue’ is visiting Istanbul, Turkey, demanding the immediate release of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan.
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