Erdogan
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Is a Biden presidency good for the Kurds? An interview with Hisyar Ozsoy, academic and HDP MP
Since March 2019 local elections, the Turkish government has carried out “a systematic campaign” according to POMED, to overturn the results by removing Kurdish mayors in South Eastern towns and replacing them with trustees known as ‘kayyum’. The former leader of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas, is in jail and many of its MPs have also been arrested, charged with association of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the flimsiest of evidence. As life under Turkey’s increasingly nationalist government gets harder for ordinary Kurds and their representatives, John Lubbock asks the HDP’s Hisyar Ozsoy about the situation and his reaction to the recent U.S. election.
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Analysts say Biden should shift U.S. policy on Syria’s Kurds
U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden should change Washington's policy on Syrian Kurdish armed groups to make room for cooperation with Turkey, Daily Sabah said on Tuesday, citing analysts.
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US complied with Erdogan's demands regarding Syrian Kurds: researcher
Political researcher Eliza Marcus says the United States withdrew its forces from northern Syria to pave the way for a Turkish attack on the Kurds because Erdogan wanted to.
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Erdogan suffers if Trump can not win US presidential elections, PDY official tells KurdPress
Bakr Haj Isa, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) communications manager in the Euphrates region told KurdPress in an interview that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will suffer if US President Donald Trump fails to win the upcoming presidential elections in the country in November.
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How does Erdogan get away with it all? / Cengiz Candar
The United States and European Union’s inertia may allow Turkey to threaten de-escalation efforts in Libya and South Caucasus.
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Mazlum Kobani says Erdogan is using Islam for personal interests
The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazlum Kobani, on Monday expressed his support for French President Emmanuel Macron in his row with his Turkish counterpart, saying that Recep Tayyip Erdogan was using Islam for personal gain.
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Erdogan’s AKP stirring up dissent within Turkey’s opposition parties / Ceren Karlidag
Trouble among Turkey’s opposition parties continues with the center-right Good Party (İYİP) deputy Umit Ozdag accusing a senior official in his party of being a follower of U.S.-based Islamist preacher Fethullah Gulen.
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Turkey will not invade Syrian Kurdistan again, official tells KurdPress
The head of the Euphrates Strategic Research Center said the change of president in the United States will not change US policy in Syria.
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Erdogan will be worried about Biden victory: columnist
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be worried about the result of the upcoming United States presidential election having staked much on his personal relationship with Donald Trump, the Washington Post’s foreign policy and national security columnist said on Thursday.
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Demirtaş says he is in prison because Erdogan is afraid of him
Former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been jailed for nearly four years, says that his imprisonment is the result of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fear of himself and his party’s political power.
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Erdogan says Şirnak is as developed as other provinces, overlooking years of clashes, neglect
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Şirnak has the same advantages as the other 80 provinces.
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Erdogan has no solution for Kurds at the polls - analysis
Despite his tight grip on Turkey’s military front and judiciary, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been unable to convince millions of Kurds to vote for him, said the Economist on Saturday.