European Left supports campaign to visit Öcalan, calls for renewed peace negotiations
The Party of the European Left and the Left in the European Parliament have formally announced their support for the ...
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Eren Keskin, a prominent human rights lawyer and co-chair of the Turkish Human Rights Association (İHD), comments on the legal ...
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May sees at least 177 worker deaths in Turkey amid poor protections, says labour watch
At least 177 workers died in Turkey during May in job-related incidents, according to a new report released by the ...
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Turkey: Mucilage threat returns, choking Marmara’s vital coral reefs
A thick, jelly-like layer of marine mucilage has once again returned to Turkey’s Marmara Sea, posing a severe threat to ...
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Leading anti-racism NGO urges UN to re-examine Turkey’s isolation of Kurdish leader Öcalan
Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (MRAP), a leading French anti-racism organisation, has urged the United Nations Human ...
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Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party demands access to Abdullah Öcalan for talks
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party announced on Wednesday that it is preparing a high-level visit to ...
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Rebecca Lucas: PKK’s shift shows how politics can replace armed struggle
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a 40-year armed campaign against the Turkish state, announced on 12 May ...
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‘State-led ecocide in Turkey’s southeast cannot be called peace’: Kurdish MP
Zeki Irmez, an MP for the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, has drawn a spotlight to what he described ...
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Turkey’s ruling AKP seizes Gaziosmanpaşa in İstanbul after mayor arrests
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) seized control of İstanbul’s Gaziosmanpaşa municipality on Wednesday after its mayor was jailed ...
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Helin Ümit on Kurdish question: ‘Without change in the state, nothing can move forward’
“Without transformation in the state, these decisions cannot be put into practice,” Helin Ümit of the Kurdish Freedom Movement declared ...
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