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❹ Vigil for victims of #ParisAttackshttps://t.co/glIcGyi4nt pic.twitter.com/IacI9HZFJ2— MedyaNews (@1MedyaNews) January 7, 2023
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has temporarily blocked the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s access to Treasury funds as part of an ongoing effort to shut down the second-largest opposition party in the country. The pro-Kurdish party said the decision aims to hinder a just and democratic election process.
The Kurdistan Communities Union Executive Council co-chair Besê Hozat discussed Damascus- Ankara relations and said it would be “political suicide” for Damascus to act on the basis of Turkish politics and that an agreement with the Kurds would benefit Damascus.
New regulations that ease restrictions on the release of prisoners with health conditions are a “first step” but are not enough to resolve the human rights violations in Turkey’s prisons, the İHD Human Rights Association reported.
The Kurdish community in Paris organised a human chain between the Ahmet Kaya Cultural Centre and the Kurdish Information Centre, the sites of two massacres against Kurds a decade apart. One of the victims of the recent 23 December massacre, activist Emine Kaya, was part of a committee preparing a vigil in the memory of three Kurdish women killed, 10 years before, in January 2013.
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