Pro-Kurdish DEM Party calls for peace, justice and unity in Eid message
The co-chairs of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan, have issued a joint ...
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MEPs: Allow Öcalan to speak, end military aggression, restore democratic norms
Twenty-nine Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) issued a collective call to the European Commission on 22 March, urging it ...
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Erdoğan mocks peace hopes by choosing the path of autocracy and war – last week in Kurdish news
Sarah Glynn Not long ago, I – like many others – described Turkey as at a crossroads. President Erdoğan has ...
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The Kurdish scapegoats of Turkish politics and the operation to reshape the opposition
Amed Dicle The government employs the same tactic every time it seeks to put pressure on the opposition: portraying any ...
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Paris-based Middle East expert highlights ‘denial’ at heart of Kurdish question
Prof. Dr. Hamit Bozarslan of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris has shed light on ...
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PKK’s Helin Ümit: We need to communicate with our leader Abdullah Öcalan
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Central Committee member Helin Ümit has said that the PKK aspires to a transformation in ...
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Turkish opposition’s new reform plan calls for parliamentary commission on Kurdish issue
The Republican People’s Party (CHP) has prepared a 20-point democratisation package, marking a significant step in Turkey’s ongoing political debate ...
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UN welcomes Öcalan’s call for PKK disarmament, as ‘glimmer of hope’
Reactions to the historic call of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), who is currently imprisoned ...
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Germany welcomes Öcalan’s call for PKK disarmament, urges further steps towards peace
The German Foreign Ministry officially released a statement on 27 February after imprisoned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan ...
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Washington acknowledges Öcalan’s message, expresses hopes of easing Turkey-SDF conflict
The White House has welcomed Abdullah Öcalan’s latest appeal for peace, describing it as a "major step" towards reducing conflict ...
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