Four Kurdish organisations based in Brussels, Vienna, Stockholm and Cologne, started an EU-project in the framework of the Grundtvig “Life-Long-Learning”-Programme.The aim of the project is embedding Kurdish cultural identity and to enhance the integration...
The European Parliament,– having regard to the Commission’s Turkey 2009 Progress Report (SEC(2009)1334),– having regard to the Agreement of 12 September 1963 establishing an Association between the European Economic Community and...
Many schools in Turkey’s pre-dominantly Kurdish region of the south-eastern Anatolia started a one-week school boycott at the beginning of the new school year. The students claim their right to education in their mother tongue. The Movement for Research on the...
Reacting to the results of a referendum in which Turkish citizens adopted a revision of parts of the constitution as proposed by Prime Minister Erdogan. GUE/NGL President Lothar Bisky said:"With the successful revision of some parts of Turkish constitution, the...
"With the successful revision of some parts of Turkish constitution, the AKP government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken some steps towards improved rule of law. He has also demonstrated his power and ability to govern. Nevertheless, Erdogan was not able to...
