HDP executives: We won’t accept this coup!
Amed Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor Selçuk Mızraklı and HDP Deputy Meral Danış Beştaş stated that they do not recognize the trustee: "Everyone should take responsibility."
418 people detained following AKP seizure of municipalities
HDP-run Amed, Mardin and Van metropolitan municipalities have been seized by the AKP regime once again in the early hours of the...
HDP: We will not be silenced, we will not be stopped»
We publish below the press release by the HDP about the seizure by the AKP regime of the municipalities of Amed, Mardin and Van
Turkey: the wondrous tale of democratic resilience
All the country’s democratic and civic institutions — from an impartial judiciary to its newspapers and universities — have been battered by the ruling party
Turkey’s Erdogan facing resistance to his dictatorial rule
“Democracy is like a tram; you get off when you have reached your destination.” The comment by Recep Tayyip Erdogan - made more than 20 years ago when he was first elected mayor of Istanbul - sums up the Machiavellian cynicism of Turkey’s authoritarian president
Against the ECHR judgment, the AKP has accelerated its pursuit for a move to ‘finish the job’
Political pressure has already begun for the Appeal Court to hear and uphold the Istanbul Aggravated Felony Court’s completely unlawful sentence of 4-year-and-8-months imprisonment ruled last month in the case where I was tried with my colleague Sırrı Süreyya Önder
“On the detentions against the HDP members ahead of local elections”
Friday 26 October, with Turkey’s local election date just announced, Turkish local elections are set to take place on March 31, 2019
Turkey looks ahead to a strongman era
In the latest test of his leadership, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan proved once more why he is Turkey's most preeminent politician and its most dominant leader since Mustafa Kemal Attaturk
The Struggle for Peace in Northern Kurdistan…
In amidst the deep silence of the western media in the face of the violent suppression of Turkey's Kurds
«Displaced and Dispossessed». Turkey Condemned for Forced Exodus of Kurds from Diyarbakir
Tuesday, 6th December 2016, Amnesty International release their report "DISPLACED AND DISPOSSESSED: SUR RESIDENTS’ RIGHT TO RETURN HOME".
