Category: HDP

Turkey Determined to Complete 30 km Security Strip Along Syrian Border

Al Mayadeen Turkey will be completing the security strip along its southern border, which is 30 kilometers deep into Syrian territory. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that Turkey will be completing the security strip along its southern border, which is 30 kilometers deep into Syrian territory. Erdogan, speaking at a meeting in…

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Erdoğan Starts a Political Earthquake in Turkey

Vijay Prashad, E. Ahmet Tonak HDP politician Selahattin Demirtaş has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison for “insulting the president”. Photo: ANF Significant developments are underway in Turkey. Most ominously, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has moved toward the banning of one…

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Struggle for Democracy in Turkey

President of the HDP party, Ertuğrul Kürkçü, speaks to Vijay Prashad about the latest crackdown by Erdoğan’s government on democracy Ertuğrul Kürkçü, Honorary president of the People’s Democratic Party, (HDP) talks to Vijay Prashad about the Turkish government’s attempt to the ban the party, the history of leftist and democratic resistance in the country and…

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Detention of Kurdish Mayors is an Attack on Kurdish Democratic Autonomy

By FARC-EP After a detention order issued by Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor’s Office, anti-terror units police detained Amed Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor Gültan Kışanak at Diyarbakır Airport and co-mayor Fırat Anlı in his house, on Tuesday 25 October. Gültan Kışanak had just returned from Ankara when she got detained at the airport. In Ankara, she had been…

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Turkey: HDP Municipalities Seized, 11,500 Teachers Purged for Alleged Ties to the PKK

28 Kurdish DBP Municipalities Seized Kurdish Question Trustees have been appointed to Democratic Regions Party (DBP) municipalities in Diyarbakır’s (Amed) Sur and Silvan districts. Another 26 municipalities have also been seized. Speaking following a meeting with province governors earlier today, Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said, “The state has determined that they [Kurdish municipalities] are…

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‘Turkey Uses Kurdish Issue to Radicalize People and Consolidate Power’

Violent clashes continue between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey. Sputnik-Middle East  A car bomb rammed into a military base in Diyarbakir province, killing one soldier and injuring twenty others. The incident occurred just hours after the country’s ministers adjourned in the neighboring Sanliurfa province to discuss ways of rebuilding the region’s shattered economy.Prime Minister Ahment Davutoglu chaired…

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Turkey’s Military Campaign Targets all Kurds, Not Just a Certain Party

Ahmad Shiwesh and Eyaz Ciziri QAMISHLI – The Turkish army forces have been bombing the Kurdish city of Nusaybin southeastern Turkey for weeks. At least seven neighborhoods in the city have been under heavy bombardment, according to Sara Kaya, mayor of Nusaybin city and member of the Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP). People of the Syrian…

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Erdogan Rejects HDP Proposal, Rules Out Return to ‘Negotiations’ with PKK

HDP Proposes Law for Peace and Resolution of Kurdish Question 4 April 2016 Kurdish Question Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out a return to ‘negotiations’ with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party after Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu hinted that there could be a return to the table. Speaking at a Turkish Red Crescent convention the…

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HDP Proposes Law for Peace and Resolution of Kurdish Question

Kurdish Question The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has made a legislative proposal in Parliament to establish peace and legally guarantee all previous and future peace talks regarding the Kurdish question. Named the ‘Societal Peace and Negotiation Law,’ the proposal states that the recent period of conflict has led to great losses and pains and requests…

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