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TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) demanded justice today for 33 young people killed in an Isis attack as they gathered to take toys across the border for children in Kobane, Syria, five years ago. It called for a parliamentary inquiry into ...
Jun 20, 2020 On June 13, Turkish social media was rocked by a crude threat from a pro-Justice and Development Party (AKP) account. The target was Selahattin Demirtas and his wife, Basak Demirtas. Demirtas, the ...
Jun 18, 2020 ISTANBUL — Police in riot gear looked on as several hundred supporters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) gathered in Istanbul’s Besiktas district Thursday for a demonstration against ongoing state pressure on ...
Jun 15, 2020 Turkey has launched a wave of airstrikes against Kurdish militants in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, part of an ongoing campaign to destroy and degrade the group that has been battling the Turkish army ...
A girl flashes the victory sign as holding a flag bearing the logo of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as Turkish Kurds gather during Newroz celebrations for the new year in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, on March ...
Suspended Diyarbakır mayor was brought to the courthouse under heavy security measures. Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı, the former mayor of Diyarbakır who was previously removed from office by the Interior Ministry was arrested by a court ...
Former co-chairperson of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been behind bars since November 2016, has called on his party’s base to support the opposition’s mayoral candidate in İstanbul, Ekrem İmamoğlu, ...
TUR 002 / 0619 / OBS 047Arbitrary arrest / Release/Judicial harassmentTurkeyJune 6, 2019The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your intervention ...
Turkey’s March 31 local elections were a complete defeat for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), in which the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) played a key role, jailed HDP lawmaker ...
Backed to a corner, Mr Erdogan is fighting for political survival. However, one would be foolish to count him out There are many uncertainties in Turkish politics – the performance of the economy, relations with ...