23/11/2016 Urgent Call: Worsening Situation in Turkish Prisons Recently there have been several news and claims in the Turkish and international media that uprisings might be provoked in the prisons of Turkey to provide the government the excuse and opportunity to...
PYD Public Statement 22-11-2016 We, the General Council of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), condemn the Turkish authorities’ arrest warrant for the Co-President of the PYD, Mr Salih Muslim Mohammed. We emphasise that we do not recognise this warrant, which...
17.11.2016 The Turkish government’s assault on Kurdish municipalities continues full force! (HDP statement) The Erdoğan-AKP regime’s onslaught on Kurdish municipalities has gained new momentum. On November 16th, Mr Tuncer Bakirhan, co-mayor of Siirt, as well as Mr...
TURKEY: The country where democracy, human rights, freedom and the rule of law has come to an end and replaced with battlefields, destruction and dungeons. The Turkish Governments enmity of democracy and Kurds continues Balance-sheet for attacks on elected...
On Thursday, November 17th, 2016, thousands of people gathered in Brussels to raise awareness about the increasingly authoritarian policies in Turkey. The demonstrators consisted of Kurdish, Turkish, Armenian, Alevi and many other groups, but also of Belgian and...
Published by Al-Monitor on November 4, 2016 (after the arrests of the HDP-parliamentarians) An email I received around noon today from a young Turkish academic with impeccable credentials, whom I know very closely, ended with the following precautionary note: “*PLEASE...
