Kurdish youth march for Öcalan’s freedom begins in Turkey
Hundreds of Kurdish youth set off on a march from Diyarbakır (Amed) to the Halfeti (Xalfetî) district of Şanlıurfa (Riha) ...
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Newroz celebrated in all four parts of Kurdistan
The festival of Newroz is being celebrated across all four parts of Kurdistan today. You can find detailed coverage of ...
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Halfeti Newroz celebrations focus on Abdullah Öcalan and calls for democratic change
Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), made a speech demanding action over the continued imprisonment ...
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Turkey’s main opposition leader Özel denounces Erdoğan’s trustee policy as ‘hypocrisy’
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel delivered a blistering critique of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s policy of ...
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Deposed Co-Mayor Sönük of Batman, Turkey: “We will destroy the system of masculinity”
Co-Mayor of Batman (Êlih) Gülistan Sönük condemned the Turkish government's appointments of trustees replacing elected mayors in Kurdish-majority municipalities in ...
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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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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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Turkey: Legal action against DEM co-chair Tuncer Bakırhan over speech
The Turkish Ministry of Interior has announced that legal proceedings have been opened against Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) party ...
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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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