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Kurdish politician Tu?luk: Bad things will happen 0

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Post Views: 5 Kurdish politician Tu?luk: Bad things will happen Aysel Tu?luk Aysel Tu?luk, the co-chairwoman of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) — a group affiliated with the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), said on Thursday that “bad things

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Asssociations ask new questions about alleged mass grave 0

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Post Views: 18 The Bar Association Van branch’s Human Rights Commission and MAZLUMDER filed a criminal complain with the Van Republic Attorney General Office about hundreds of human bodies thought to be interred in a cave in Van’s Toprak Kale

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Politicians in prison get election support in Turkey 0

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Post Views: 22 ANKARA Hürriyet Daily News Leyla Zana, a former deputy from the now-defunct Democracy Party, or DEP, will be an independent candidate from Diyarbak?r. DHA photo Turkey’s pro-Kurdish party announced Sunday its independent nominees for the June 12

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Estrasburgo condena al Estado español por violar la libertad de expresión de Arnaldo Otegi al condenarle por “injurias” al rey 0

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Post Views: 4 Estrasburgo condena al Estado español por violar la libertad de expresión de Arnaldo Otegi al condenarle por “injurias” al rey El Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos ha condenado al Estado español por vulnerar el derecho a la

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PKK cease-fire end seen as move to help BDP before elections 0

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Post Views: 8 ERCAN YAVUZANKARA BDP leader Selahattin Demirta? Neither the government nor any of Turkey’s intelligence units were surprised when the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced on Monday that it was ending a unilateral cease-fire — which it

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‘No surprise if PKK tries to influence June 12 elections’ 0

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Post Views: 3 AL? ASLAN KILIÇ ANKARA Süleyman Özeren Stressing that there isn’t the slightest sign that the terror organization the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has given up its aims to establish an “independent Kurdistan,” associate professor at the National

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Öcalan’s rationality 0

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Post Views: 3 Lale KemalThere are fears that violence may resume next month, mainly in the predominantly Kurdish, war-stricken southeastern parts of Turkey, if the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorist organization fails to abide by its self-declared cease-fire, in effect

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Saturday Mothers Demand Political Determination 0

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Post Views: 8 The Saturday mothers announced their demands delivered to PM Erdo?an at their weekly protest action on Saturday. They requested independent members to be appointed to the sub-commission on unsolved disappearances and called for signing the related UN

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Shocking confession by former mayor of Siirt confirmed mass grave 0

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Post Views: 11 Ekrem Bilek, former mayor of Siirt, confirmed that Newala Qesaba (Butchers’ River) was a known mass grave in the ’90s After the recovery of 18 corpses in the mass grave in Mutki, former Mayor Bilek admitted that

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Bitlis bones might shed light on unsolved murders 0

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Post Views: 12 ISMA?L AVCIB?TL?S Bones belonging to 12 individuals who went missing in the 1990s were found during an excavation that started on Wednesday in Bitlis’ Mutki district. Investigators looking for the bodies of some people who went missing

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