Speaking in a group meeting of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party’s co-chair Mithat Sancar commented on the “Alevi djemevi and culture directorate” that Turkish President Recep Tayyp Erdogan recently said would be established. ...
Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) said in its 2021 report that the state of emergency that was declared after the coup attempt in mid 2016 and which was ended in July 2018 has become permanent ...
Kurds make up 20 percent of Turkey’s population, and such a move would have serious repercussions for Ankara were it to come to pass ANKARA: The debate around peace between Turkey and its Kurdish minority ...