Tag: HDP
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, ...
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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 ...
The Turkish city of Diyarbakir, dubbed the country’s Kurdish capital, is a strong support base for the pro-Kurdish HDP party. But after the last election, more than 90% of HDP mayors were replaced by technocrats, ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday denied calling pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) supporters terrorists and said the label is true for the party’s lawmakers, independent news site T24 reported. “I have never called ...
By AFP Damaged buildings in the historic Sur district, a UNESCO world heritage site, in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir, February 27, 2019. Photo: Ilyas Akengin / AFP DIYARBAKIR, Turkey – Candidates campaigning for upcoming local ...
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 ...
An election campaign video of Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chairperson of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who has been jailed in Turkey since November 2016, was removed from YouTube after Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT claimed ...
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By Giran Ozcan Twenty years ago today, Turkey announced Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan had been captured in Kenya and brought back to Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the organisation he led, had been fighting ...