Turkey: Kurdish icon Leyla Zana urges women to lead peace
Veteran Kurdish politician Leyla Zana has urged Kurdish women to take the lead in building peace and democracy across the ...
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Germany arrests Kurdish politician amid peace process shift
Kurdish politician Yüksel Koç was arrested on Tuesday at his home in Bremen by German police as part of an ...
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Duran Kalkan on PKK’s 12th Congress: ‘A new era in the struggle for freedom and peace’
Duran Kalkan, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and delegate at the group’s 12th Congress, has reflected ...
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Peace and democratisation before early elections
Veysi Sarısözen In his column yesterday, Cumhuriyet writer Orhan Bursalı wrote: “The Palace and the Justice and Development Party (AKP) ...
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Peace process accelerates in Turkey: Major steps ahead
Amed Dicle Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned Kurdish leader held for 26 years in İmralı Island Prison, issued his "Peace and ...
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Honouring the memory of the executed revolutionaries is a principle, says Abdullah Öcalan
“What they once expressed in words has today evolved into a programme, a war, and ultimately a peace,” said Abdullah ...
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The man who moves Kurdistan
Leandro Albani The first impression is that the years pass, inevitably. Grey hair and moustache, wrinkles on a gaunt face, ...
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Öcalan condemns Alevi massacre in Syria, highlights Kurdish movement’s origins in forsaken communities
Ömer Öcalan, a member of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party and the nephew of Abdullah Öcalan, has shared ...
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One million celebrate Newroz in Istanbul: Call for freedom echoes across the city
Istanbul’s Yenikapı Square became a sea of colour and resistance on 23 March, an estimated one million people marked Newroz ...
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Öcalan’s call to end armed struggle marks ‘new beginning’: KONGRA-GEL co-chair says
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan's call for the dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and an end to armed ...
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