Finally, the Kurdish question has been declared "the number one issue of Turkey" by the highest authority of the Turkish State, President Abdullah Gül, on 9 May 2009. Gül also stated that there were optimistic developments and that a historical...
Emine Ayna, Fatma Kurtulan, Aysel Tuğluk, Sabahat Tuncel and Selahattin Demirtaş received official notices last week instructing them to testify as part of cases in which they were implicated in the past. The deputies have long refused to testify in the cases...
Two members of the Kurdistan National Congress, Mr. Remzi Kartal and Mr. Eyyup Doru are under the judicial control of the Spanish authorities. Mr. Kartal, a member of the Executive Council of KNK, was, at the request of Turkey via Interpol, arrested on the 24th March...
The Kurdistan Women Union-Europe (KWU-E) organised a visit on Thursday 15 May to the First and Second Chamber. The group was headed by the KWU-Europe head Mrs. Shilan Dosky, whose brother Serdar Dosky used to be a member of the Socialist party (SP), but is now active...
Last week, on his return from Prague, Gül had told journalists that the Kurdish question was “Turkey’s priority. It definitely needs to be solved.”Opposition to be expectedHowever, Yeğen warned people from getting the impression that the PKK...
According to Hakan Tahmaz from Turkey’s Peace Assembly, the recently announced "Under-secretariat of Public Order and Security" reveals that the government regards the Kurdish issue solely on grounds of security."Such initiatives were tried...
