‘Van’s resistance inspires hope and pride,’ Zeydan declares amid protests over sentence
Protests in Van (Wan) have intensified following the sentencing of co-mayor Abdullah Zeydan to three years and nine months in ...
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Trump’s Gaza take-over plan ‘continuation of genocide’: Palestinian rights activist Omar Barghouti
"The Palestinian phoenix of Gaza is emerging from under the rubble to reassert to the world that we shall never ...
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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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Daily News : 11 February 2025
11/02/2025 – #DailyNews – #MedyaNews 📍A political crisis deepens in Van (Wan) as protesters rally against the sentencing ...
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DEM Party’s Co-Chair Hatimoğulları: Abdullah Öcalan must be allowed to engage directly for peace
“If a solution is truly desired, a platform must be established where Öcalan can engage directly with his organisation,” said ...
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Ten years after the battle for Kobani – an Australian perpective
Peter Boyle It was during the heroic and world-significant battle for Kobani (Kobanê) in 2014-2015 that together with the late ...
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Turkey: Van protests erupt as co-mayor sentenced in politically charged case
"We, as the people of Van—1.2 million strong—will protect our honour, pride, and will, no matter the cost," declared Van ...
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Turkey: Van co-mayor calls sentencing a ‘political plot’
"This is a judicial plot to seize the people's will once again," Abdullah Zeydan, co-mayor of Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality, ...
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Decentralised system best for new Syria, says AANES’s Ilham Ahmed
Ilham Ahmed, Foreign Relations co-chair for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, stressed the importance of a decentralised ...
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