16:40 10/3/2015 |
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HDP General Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ speaks in her party's weekly parliamantary group meeting in Ankara. Yüksekdağ evaluates the 10 articles presented by PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan through a joint declaration by HDP and AKP and states, "Ten articles cover the demands of equal citizenship of all identities, solutions of social and economical problems, forming a democratic constitution and demands of those struggling against unemployment and inequality". She also criticised President on his remarks towards women.
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10:59 10/3/2015 |
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The following article “Peace process in Turkey: Where are we at?” was written by Amed Dicle and appeared in Özgür Gündem. It has been translated by Kurdish Question into English below.
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21:29 09/3/2015 |
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KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency has released a statement to mark International Women's Day which it described as the day of unity, solidarity and struggle against the five thousand-year-old male-dominant ruling, the dominant culture of gender, violence, rape and sexual abuse.
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10:13 08/3/2015 |
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Journalist-author Aslı Aydıntaşbaş evaluated the ongoing discussions on the 10 articles presented by PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan. Aydıntaşbaş underlined that these 10 articles would pave the way for democratization of Turkey.
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11:00 07/3/2015 |
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South Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani has called upon all Kurdish people and the world to help rebuild Kobanê Canton of West Kurdistan, Rojava.
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11:58 05/3/2015 |
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Prof. Dr. Mithat Sancar evaluated the ongoing discussions on the 10 articles presented by PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan. Sancar said the first article was aiming at turn to the politics.
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17:50 28/2/2015 |
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Selma Irmak, co-chair of the Democractic Society Congress (DTK), said the joint announcement made today regarding the peace and resolution process was the beginning of negotiations.
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17:14 28/2/2015 |
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"We are much willing to make peace but this depends on the practices of the government which however promises yet no hope with the policies it pursues and the pressure it puts on the people," HDP Co-president Selahattin Demirtaş said.
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12:16 28/2/2015 |
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HDP İmralı delegation has met Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan regarding the ongoing process in search of a peaceful and democratic resolution to the Kurdish question.
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11:36 26/2/2015 |
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Discussions in the Kurdish and Turkish media recently have have been about the fate of the so-called "resolution process" to the Kurdish question.
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13:55 25/2/2015 |
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Prior to tomorrow’s debate in the German Federal Parliament on the PKK ban, Die Linke (Left Party) deputy Andrej Hunko said that deputies from all parties wanted the ban to be lifted, but the state security apparatus, or deep state, wanted to maintain it.
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11:28 25/2/2015 |
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In an interview given to Gülsah Keles of Armenian daily newspaper Agos, Syriza foreign affairs executive Panos Trigazis said that they were in support of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the upcoming elections in Turkey.
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15:59 24/2/2015 |
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HDP General Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ speaks in her party's weekly parliamantary group meeting in Ankara. Yüksekdağ evaluates the "homeland security package" and states, "You cannot take peace process with such pro-security bills based on war and tension under assurance. This package is against peace process."
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13:44 24/2/2015 |
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A People’s Democratic Party (HDP) European election campaign coordination has been set up to carry out work for the upcoming general election in Turkey and North Kurdistan to be held on 7 June. The coordination said they aim to obtain 400 thousand votes in Europe and called on all democratic circles to contribute to the election work of the HDP.
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12:36 24/2/2015 |
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Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) General President Devlet Bahçeli strongly reacted to the moving of the Suleyman Shah tomb to a YPG-held area in Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava.
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14:19 23/2/2015 |
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PKK Executive Committee member Murat Karayılan said the operation to move the tomb of Suleyman Shah had involved the approval of the PYD and YPG, adding that the Turkish state had also reached agreement with ISIS to ensure there was no intervention. Karayılan said it was clear that there was no military victory, as there had been no clashes. He said rather that it had been achieved by good use of diplomacy.
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13:49 23/2/2015 |
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Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) General Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, along with HDP Kars MP Mülkiye Birtane and Party of Democtatic Regions (DBP) General Co-chair Kamuran Yüksek met with some pro-Kurdistan parties and associations in Diyarbakır within the scope of alliances for upcoming general elections.
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12:28 23/2/2015 |
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Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) Co-president Kamuran Yüksek said the AKP Government, with the draft ‘internal security’ law which is currently being debated in the Turkish parliament, wishes to abolish the constitutional right to protest. He added that the YPG had given the AKP government a lesson in humanity by allowing Turkey to evacuate the tomb of Suleyman Shah, despite Turkey refusing to open a corridor.
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07:23 23/2/2015 |
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The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and the Labor Party (EMEP) announced their decision to join forces ahead of the June 7 general elections in Turkey, according to a statement released on Sunday.
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07:22 23/2/2015 |
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Debate in the Turkish parliament on the internal security bill prepared by the AKP government continues while the opposition parties, primarily the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), is strongly opposing the bill.
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