Saturday Mothers Demand Political Determination
The Saturday mothers announced their demands delivered to PM Erdo?an at their weekly protest action on Saturday. They requested independent members to...
Shocking confession by former mayor of Siirt confirmed mass grave
Ekrem Bilek, former mayor of Siirt, confirmed that Newala Qesaba (Butchers’ River) was a known mass grave in the ’90s After the...
Bitlis bones might shed light on unsolved murders
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...
Poll: New CHP unable to come to power, solve Kurdish question
BETÜL AKKAYA DEM?RBA? ?STANBUL A recent change in the administration of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) has boosted hopes for a stronger...
“Bilingual Life” Project Fuels Interest in Kurdish Language
Besim Baykal, President of the Kurdish KURD?-DER association, sees education in the mother tongue as a key to a solution of the...
Jailed PKK head critical of Kurdish autonomy demands
TODAY’S ZAMAN Abdullah Öcalan was seen during his trial in the prison island of ?mral? in 1999. Head of the Kurdistan Workers’...
Gül emphasizes Turkish as official language in first Diyarbak?r speech
TODAY’S ZAMAN ?STANBUL Diyarbak?r Mayor Osman Baydemir warmly welcomed President Abdullah Gül at the Diyarbak?r airport yesterday. President Abdullah Gül, who...
Democratic autonomy offers draconian, Marxist-style rules for Kurds
AY?E KARABATANKARA The Democratic Society Congress presented the first comprehensive draft of its “Democratic Autonomous Kurdistan Model” at a conference in Diyarbak?r...
‘Syria pledges to keep PKK leaders on own soil’
ERCAN YAVUZ ANKARA Turkey and Syria have signed what can be termed a historic deal in the fight against terrorism. Prime Minister...
