Ousted Kurdish mayors urge Europe to condemn Turkey crackdown
Dismissed Kurdish mayors in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority eastern city of Van (Wan) urged a visiting delegation from the Council of Europe ...
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EU Left welcomes PKK disarmament as step toward peace, urges Ankara to follow
Martin Schirdewan, co-president of the Left Group in the European Parliament, described the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)’s recent decision to ...
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‘I want to visit Öcalan’: EP left co-chair Schirdewan backs peace push
European Parliament Left Group co-chair Martin Schirdewan demanded that Turkey lift its 26-year isolation of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan ...
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European Parliament sets conditions for support for Syria amid political transition
The European Parliament has signalled conditional and partial support for Syria’s post-war reconstruction and political transition, stressing the need for ...
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EP’s Sánchez Amor: ‘Big step’ towards talks on Kurdish issue in Turkey
“This is absolutely good news,” said Nacho Sánchez Amor, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur, in an interview with Erem ...
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