DEM Party’s Bakırhan to Turkish government: For a shared future, abandon denialism
Speaking at the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party's weekly group meeting in the Turkish Parliament on Tuesday, Co-Chair Tuncer ...
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Erdoğan labels deposed Kurdish mayors ‘unsavoury types’; Ahmet Türk defends democratic mandate
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has labelled deposed Kurdish mayors as “unsavoury types", prompting a strong response from Ahmet Türk, ...
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Turkey: Mass protests continue against government’s replacement of elected officials with trustees
Mass demonstrations against Turkish government's replacement of elected Kurdish officials with state-appointed trustees continued across multiple cities, with the authorities ...
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Kurdish-majority cities rise up against trustee policies in Turkey
The Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has reported widespread protests in the Kurdish regions of Turkey against the recent ...
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HRW: Over half a million voters lose elected mayors in Turkey amid trustee appointments
The Erdoğan government’s removal of five democratically elected mayors and dissolution of municipal councils constitutes a “significant blow to Turkey’s ...
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DEM Party deputy Ömer Öcalan criticises trustee appointment in Halfeti
Recent developments in Turkey's approach to the Kurdish issue have raised fundamental questions about the course of democratic politics and ...
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Global outcry grows over Turkey’s replacement of elected Kurdish mayors with state appointees
International voices are rising in opposition to Turkey’s recent move to replace democratically elected Kurdish mayors in several key municipalities ...
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Police violence in Turkey’s Kurdish cities as protesters resist government-appointed trustees
Protests intensified across Turkey’s Kurdish-majority cities of Mardin (Mêrdîn), Batman (Êlih), and Halfeti (Xelfetî) following the government’s controversial appointment of ...
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Kurdish mayors defy trustee appointments, call for resistance
In a defiant response to Turkey’s appointment of trustees in Kurdish-majority cities on 4 November, the ousted co-mayors of Batman ...
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Nine municipalities in AANES denounce Turkey’s trustee actions, back Kurdish resistance
Nine municipalities in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) have publicly condemned Turkey's recent dismissal of pro-Kurdish ...
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