The Council adopted the following conclusions:1. "The Council thanks the Court of Auditors for its Special Report No 16/2009. It has carefully examined this important document, and has taken note that the objective of the Court was to assess the effectiveness of...
Message by Mr. Osman Baydemir, Mayor of Diyarbakir Metropolitan and the President of the Union of South East Anatolia Region Municipalities, 10 the "6th International Conference on EU, Turkeyand the Kurds" organized in Brussels on 3-4 February 2010. Dear...
April 16, 2010 <http://persian2english.com/?p=9456>The purpose of this letter is not to pinpoint the problems of the Kurds and deny the inequalities that exist among the Baluchis, Turks, Persians, and Arabs. By adopting a sympathetic comradely toward others, one...
The Qandil Mountains, in Iraqi Kurdistan. We arrived here expecting training camps and PKK fighters all over the place. We find houses, children playing, women who greet us – all we can say in Kurdish is rojbas, have a good day – and serve us rice and...
Ahmet Turk, former chairman of the banned Democratic Society Party (DTP) suffered a broken nose and deep cuts in his forehead after he was punched in the face by an assailant, the report said, quoting pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputy Sirri Sakik.Turk...
Since April 14, 2009, approximately 900 executives and elected DTP /BOP were incarcerated (mayors, municipal councilors, ex-mayors, members ofthe Council of Women and Youth Council, presidents of ‘Associations ofHuman Rights, the Vice Presidents / DTP / BDP,...