Making Turkey Great Again, the rise of the far right – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn Now is not a good time to be a Kurd; nor to be a woman, to be a ...
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Prominent jailed politician Demirtaş responds to Erdoğan’s appeal for Kurdish votes
Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who has been held in prison for over ...
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Kurdish excluded from Turkish Justice Ministry language expansion
The Turkish Justice Ministry will start to offer criminal record documents in more languages, it announced on Friday. The 12-language ...
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Sweden adopts new anti-terror law, raising concerns about impact on Kurds
Sweden adopted a new anti-terror law on Wednesday, sparking concerns about Turkey's influence on Sweden's NATO membership bid and its ...
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Swedish writers warn MPs against criminalisation of Kurds
A group of Swedish writers and other individuals on Tuesday raised their concerns about criminalisation of Kurds with the parliament ...
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European parliamentarians call for independent investigation into Turkey’s alleged chemical weapons
Some 50 members of the European Parliament in an open letter this week expressed their concerns over the alleged use ...
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Turkey’s elections: pivotal moment for country’s fate and beyond
Melike Yaşar Turkey’s upcoming elections will be a turning point for the country’s future and the global struggle for democracy. ...
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Schedule 7: How the UK uses anti-terror laws to silence Kurds
Matt Broomfield British anti-terror police found themselves in the headlines this week after using a controversial power to detain a ...
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Kurds will be “kingmakers” in Turkey’s elections but don’t overlook their anxiety
Fréderike Geerdink A prosecutor in Turkey seeks life imprisonment without early release 38 times for the defendants on charges of ...
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Kılıçdaroğlu urges voters not to fall for propaganda against Kurds
Turkey's ruling party attempts to manipulate public opinion by portraying the Kurdish population as terrorists in order to gain an ...
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