Tag: HDP
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 ...
ISTANBUL — The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Wednesday for “immediate release” of a prominent Kurdish politician in Turkey, stating his more than four-year imprisonment was a violation of his rights ...
Turkey’s Kurds have reacted with cautious optimism over the election victory of former Vice President Joe Biden, hoping that new administration policies might force Turkey to pursue a more reconciliatory approach toward the Kurds, following ...
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has played a deciding role in a number of recent elections. In the local elections of March 2019, it lived up to its kingmaker reputation by using a tactic ...
TURKISH police attacked People’s Democratic Party (HDP) MP Sidik Tas and others yesterday while blocking mourners from attending the funeral of a Kurdish teenager who was allegedly repeatedly raped by a soldier. The woman, known ...
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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 ...
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. ...