Kurdish MP challenges Erdoğan over Abdullah Öcalan’s isolation
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP Ömer Öcalan has openly questioned the legal justification for Abdullah Öcalan’s ...
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Calls for freedom for Kurdish political prisoners at Paris concert
A concert was held in Paris on Saturday calling for the release of Kurdish political prisoners, including Kurdistan Workers' Party ...
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Turkish government rejects dialogue process on Kurdish question
An adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Mehmet Uçum, has denied that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) ...
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Turkey must overcome confinement, says Önder in peace appeal
Turkey's Parliament Deputy Speaker, Sırrı Süreyya Önder, has called for renewed efforts towards peace and dialogue, emphasising the need to ...
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Turkey detains hundreds after Kurdish freedom rally in Diyarbakır
The Turkish Minister of Interior reported on 15 October that 269 individuals were detained in police raids across 36 cities ...
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Kurdish opposition on banned rally: “This will not achieve peace in Turkey”
Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Diyarbakır (Amed) in southeast Turkey on Sunday, the final day of the ...
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Calls for release of Abdullah Öcalan at Athens panel on Kurdish question
by Penny Papadopoulou/Athens A panel in Athens on Wednesday marked the anniversary of the 9 October conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan, ...
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Turkish court upholds 9-year prison sentence for former Diyarbakır mayor Selçuk Mızraklı
On 10 October 2024, Turkey's Supreme Court upheld a nine-year, four-month prison sentence for Selçuk Mızraklı, the former mayor of ...
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Europe-wide protests continue to call for Öcalan’s freedom
Protests, panels, and public displays of solidarity are reverberating across Europe as part of the 'Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a ...
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Hatip Dicle calls for Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom and political solution to Kurdish issue
On 10 October 2023, a global campaign advocating for the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and a political solution ...
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