Tag: HDP
Selahattin Demirtas, in prison, 2018 photo On the same day as the opening session, on Monday, of the ‘Kobane Trial’ of 108 members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the Turkish Court of Cassation ...
PEOPLES’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu challenged Turkish police today to arrest him in parliament after the Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence. He warned the Turkish state that ...
TURKISH police detained a Kurdish woman as she marked seven days of a sit-in vigil outside the Sanliurfa courthouse in Turkey today. Emine Senyasar is demanding justice for family members who were brutally killed by government ...
TURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was accused of “waging a private war” against the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) today as its leaders appealed to the international community for support. HDP co-chairs Pervan Buldan and ...
TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) called for action from the international community today, warning of a “political lynching” after a jailed former mayor was beaten so badly she was unable to speak during a ...
FEARS are growing that Turkey’s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) may be shut down after new terror charges were raised against the entirety of its executive committee today. Files have been lodged against party co-chair ...
POPULAR Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas was charged with responsibility for a range of killings in Turkey today in a bid to keep him in jail after a European court ruled that he must be released. ...
TURKEY’S opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said that as many as 20,000 of its supporters have been detained since 2016 — and there are fears the party will be closed down after the passage of a ...
Picture this: You’re watching the evening news and you see a political party emblem — in this case, the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) emblem — on which, in place of leaves and stars, are images of hand grenades and bullets. ...
ISTANBUL — Six days after he went missing, a Turkish worker returned to his family Tuesday morning claiming he had been abducted and tortured by unidentified state agents in a forced disappearance. Speaking with a bruise under ...