Hatimoğulları urges unity against trustee appointments in Turkey
Tülay Hatimoğulları, co-chair of Turkey’s Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), has called for public unity against the government’s ...
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Trustee system protects corruption, undermines democracy, say Turkish opposition
The recent arrest of Esenyurt Mayor Ahmet Özer and his replacement by a government-appointed trustee have triggered significant protests in ...
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Bahçeli’s call on Öcalan stirs debate, DEM Party and lawyer respond
Following remarks by Devlet Bahçeli, leader of Turkey's far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), suggesting that Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan could ...
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‘We want life to win over war’: DEM Party’s Ayşegül Doğan calls Öcalan a ‘peace force’
In a recent interview with Medyascope, an independent journalism platform founded by veteran Turkish journalist Ruşen Çakır, the spokesperson of ...
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Diyarbakır rally to challenge Erdoğan’s war policy, Öcalan’s isolation
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party is set to lead a mass rally in Diyarbakır (Amed) on 13 ...
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Safeguarding journalism and heading into war: a weekly news review
I spent last week at the quarterly Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and although this is an organisation ...
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DEM Party co-chair talks to Medya News: an interview with Tülay Hatimoğulları
This week, DEM Party co-chair, Tülay Hatimoğulları was at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, and in between updating leading ...
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DEM Party delegation concludes key meetings in Strasbourg on Turkey’s authoritarianism, human rights violations
A delegation from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, led by co-chair Tülay Hatimoğulları, held a series of high-level ...
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Israel’s killing of Nasrallah will deepen regional crisis, warns Turkey’s DEM Party
Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will only further entrench violence across the region, warned Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality ...
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Political dimensions of Narin Güran’s murder highlighted by women politicians, activists
The murder of 8-year-old Narin Güran, whose body was discovered on 9 September after she went missing on 21 August, ...
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