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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40 days since Öcalan’s peace call, still no gov’t action: DEM’s Bakırhan demands concrete steps
Tuncer Bakırhan, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, delivered a powerful speech in the Turkish Parliament, ...
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Selahattin Demirtaş calls for peace: end bloodshed, heal wounds, and strengthen Kurdish-Turkish unity
Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has issued a letter from Edirne High Security Prison, ...
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Istanbul conference calls for new approach to Kurdish question
The Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) hosted a conference in Istanbul over the weekend under the theme The Solution Lies in ...
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Selahattin Demirtaş unveils QAD peace initiative, calls for dialogue
Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-chair of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has made an urgent call for peace ...
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Protests mark Ankara’s METU graduation ceremony
The 2023-2024 graduation ceremony at Ankara's Middle East Technical University (METU) was marked by strong student protests at the Devrim ...
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Historical parallels: Dreyfus, Mandela, and Öcalan
In his article for Yeni Yaşam, poet and journalist Müslüm Yücel draws a compelling comparison between three landmark trials: the ...
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Pillar of the Kurdish movement, Tarık Ziya Ekinci, dies at 99
Tarık Ziya Ekinci, a Kurdish politician, writer, historian, doctor and human rights activist, passed away on 15 August 2024 at ...
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