Indictment aimed at HDP’s closure cites ‘speeches’ and events MPs attended as evidence
On Monday 21 June, Turkey’s Constitutional Court accepted an indictment seeking the closure of the pro-Kurdish opposition party, the Peoples' ...
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Prison hunger strike day 209 in Turkey: Mothers voice demands of their children behind bars
Hunger strike action launched by Kurdish political prisoners on 27 November 2020 continues to its 209th day throughout prisons in ...
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Out in the streets to protest against the HDP closure attempt: First rally in Izmir
The news that the indictment calling for the closure of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) had been accepted by the ...
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Duran Kalkan: Turkey wants the ‘full support of all NATO forces against the PKK’
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) Executive Committee member Duran Kalkan was interviewed in a special programme that was broadcast on ...
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Rock legend Roger Waters calls on Erdoğan to release Kurdish musician Nûdem Durak
At a ceremony sponsored by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, 77-year-old singer and bassist Roger Waters, founder of the band ...
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Defend Kurdistan Initiative visits Darbandikhan and Halabja
The Defend Kurdistan Initiative, an international initiative that was launched in June - which aims to immediately stop the Turkish ...
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The ‘Great Women’s Meeting’ in Istanbul opposes the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention
Although Turkey was the first state to ratify the Istanbul Convention in parliament in 2012, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decided ...
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Protests in Switzerland, France and Greece over Deniz Poyraz’s murder
Public outrage was expressed internationally as well as in Turkey over the armed attack in the Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP's) ...
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International condemnation mounts against Gencer’s murder of the HDP’s Deniz Poyraz
The President of the European Left Party, Heniz Bierbaum, described the murder of Poyraz as a cowardly attack and conveyed ...
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YRK guerrilla Kemal Şaho: ‘They want to assimilate and destroy our people’
A guerrilla from the East Kurdistan Defence Units (YRK), Kemal Şaho, who was born in Avroman region, located within the ...
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