Turkey: Pro-Kurdish DEM Party meets far-right MHP in parliament
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party held a high-level meeting on Tuesday with far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) ...
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KCK’s Besê Hozat: Peace requires Abdullah Öcalan’s leadership role
"Only Leader Apo can lead this process — and that is only possible if he is free," said KCK Executive ...
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Syrian Kurds to press for decentralised power in talks
Syrian Kurdish leaders said on Monday they will insist on a decentralised system of government in upcoming talks with Damascus, ...
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Kurdish Language Day celebrated in İstanbul with calls for official recognition
Children danced in the rain and sang in Kurdish at a colourful public celebration in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district on Saturday, ...
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Bakırhan: Kurds won’t trade away the rights of the oppressed — ‘Our aim is justice for all’
Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, has pledged to expand political alliances and deepen ...
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Amid peace efforts, calls intensify for Germany to lift PKK ban
In Germany, legal experts and members of parliament have renewed their calls to repeal the ban on the Kurdistan Workers' ...
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Osman Baydemir calls for observer mechanisms to ensure peace following PKK disbandment
Speaking on Medya Haber, veteran Kurdish human rights defender Osman Baydemir called for the establishment of independent observer mechanisms ...
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Is time running out for Syria? The truth behind Rubio’s message
Amed Dicle Syria is a place where sect, identity and borders forged through betrayal are intertwined. In this country, where ...
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Arrest of Kurdish politician Yüksel Koç in Germany
Jürgen Klute Yüksel Koç, a Kurdish politician who had been living in Germany for many years, was arrested on 20 ...
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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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