DEM Party co-chair Bakırhan: Kurds, Alevis must be equal citizens in Turkey
"Let our route be peace and democratic equality, not pain and repression," said Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ ...
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Daily News: 27 May 2025
27/05/2025 – #DailyNews – #MedyaNews 🔸 A high-level meeting in Ankara brings together Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party and nationalist MHP. ...
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Turkey’s political prisoners at centre of prison crisis
A Tuesday headline in pro-Kurdish newspaper Yeni Yaşam has reignited scrutiny over the fate of political prisoners in Turkey, spotlighting ...
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Turkey: Pro-Kurdish DEM Party meets far-right MHP in parliament
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party held a high-level meeting on Tuesday with far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) ...
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Turkey: Political prisoners denied release while violent offenders go free, says MP
Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, parliamentary group leader for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, has called for urgent legal ...
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‘True peace starts locally’: DEM leader demands end to Ankara’s trustee policy
A new political era in Turkey must be built on local democracy, equality and a legally grounded social contract*, pro-Kurdish ...
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Slovenian philosopher Alenka Zupančič: ‘Öcalan’s call breaks the iron logic of despair’
Slovenian philosopher Alenka Zupančič has voiced her full support for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s latest appeal for peace and a ...
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Turkey’s military presence in Iraq unjustified after PKK disarmament, says KRI statesman
Turkey’s justification for maintaining more than 100 military bases in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq must now be reassessed, said ...
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Recognise Kurds as Kurds to bring peace, says veteran Turkish journalist
Journalist Oral Çalışlar has said that the Kurdish issue remains unresolved because Kurds are still viewed as Turks. He pointed ...
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Bakırhan: Kurds won’t trade away the rights of the oppressed — ‘Our aim is justice for all’
Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, has pledged to expand political alliances and deepen ...
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