Italian delegation visits Rojava’s Kurdish-led Women’s Protection Units
An Italian women's delegation visited the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) in North and East Syria (Rojava) on Tuesday to discuss ...
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Historical moment for Turkey: PKK steps forward for peace ahead of Öcalan’s statement
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Executive Council has expressed its readiness for a new political peace process under the leadership ...
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Pro-Kurdish DEM Party condemns ‘coup-like’ crackdown on elected officials in Turkey
"This is nothing less than a judicial coup d'etat against the will of the people," Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and ...
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Turkey: Van protesters defy cold to oppose mayor’s prison sentence
Thousands of residents in the Kurdish-majority city of Van (Wan) in eastern Turkey braved freezing temperatures to protest overnight following ...
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DEM Party: Turkish government exploits crises to maintain power
The Turkish government is deliberately creating an illusion of justice while failing to ensure genuine accountability, according to Gülistan Kılıç ...
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Istanbul conference calls for new approach to Kurdish question
The Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) hosted a conference in Istanbul over the weekend under the theme The Solution Lies in ...
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Turkey probes media over 2013 Gezi protests amid new arrests
İstanbul prosecutors have launched an investigation into media coverage of the 2013 Gezi Park protests, requesting broadcast archives from Turkey’s ...
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Simply saying the word ‘peace’ does not make it happen!
In recent years, Turkey has faced escalating political repression, undermining hopes for democratic reform and peace. The government’s crackdown on ...
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Kurdish MP condemns Turkey’s trustee appointments as continuation of century of oppression of Kurds
In a recent address to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party parliamentary group ...
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Turkey’s judiciary under scrutiny as Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu faces legal pressure
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the most prominent opposition figure in Turkey and a potential contender against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ...
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