Demirtas
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Demirtas to challenge Erdogan's presidential candidacy with election authority
Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not legally eligible to run in the upcoming presidential election and that he will challenge his candidacy with the country’s election authority.
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Turkish court orders temporary freeze of Kurdish party funds
Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ordered a temporary freeze on the funds of the country’s pro-Kurdish party as it mulls whether to disband it over accusations of links to Kurdish militants.
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Expert sheds light on Erdogan's internal and external challenges and the future of the Kurds
In an interview with Kurdpress, James Carey, an expert on Turkey affairs, spoke about the external and internal challenges of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the upcoming elections in 2023 and his specific actions to address them, including the opposition's efforts to oust him, the future of Turkey Kurds, many other issues in Turkey and the war in Ukraine as well as the unprecedented confrontation between the West and Russia after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
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Peaceful transition ‘doubtful’ if Turkey opposition wins in 2023: Ahmet Turk
There are “serious doubts” regarding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan allowing peaceful transition of power if he loses the elections scheduled for 2023, Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk told Independent Turkish on Saturday.
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Demirtas calls on intelligentsia to unite to help build full democracy in Turkey
Jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has called on Turkey’s writers, artists, academics and journalists to unite and help establish full democracy in the country by taking “an active stance” for it in the period towards June 2023 elections, local media reported on Thursday, May 12.
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HDP says Turkish politics can never eliminate Kurdish presence
The government will not be able to purge the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) from Turkish politics, the party’s co-chair Pervin Buldan said on Sunday, as she dismissed the closure case against the group.
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Demirtas urges opposition to call on AKP to resign over lira crisis
Imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has urged Turkey’s opposition leaders to jointly call on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to resign over the recent plunge of the lira to historic lows, local media reported on Wednesday, citing a tweet shared from his account.
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Turkey puts 18 journalists on trial in a single week
In the past week alone, 18 journalists, most of whom work for Kurdish media outlets, were put on trial in Turkey, Voice of America News reported on Friday.
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Turkey may release Selahattin Demirtas on November 3
Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas may be released on parole by the court on November 3, Turkish officials said in the action plan they submitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
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US senators urge Biden to hold Erdogan accountable for crackdown on HDP
Ten U.S. senators penned an open letter to President Joe Biden on September 30 asking him to “forcefully condemn” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his government's crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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HDP aspires to solve ‘Kurdish problem’ in parliament: Demirtas
Jailed former co-chair of Turkey pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas has said the party aspires to solve Turkey’s so-called Kurdish problem and is an interlocutor for negotiations to do it, pointing to the Turkish Parliament as the place for the talks, local media reported on Tuesday.
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CHP leader says Turkey Kurdish problem should be solved through HDP
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party on Sunday said the solution to Turkey’s decades-long Kurdish problem laid with the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which is facing closure over alleged terror links.
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Demirtas says southeast Turkey wildfires deliberately set to target region
The jailed former chair of Turkey pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas said on Monday the raging wildfires in southeastern Tunceli province were deliberately set as part of an ongoing “policy’’ targeting the region’s Kurdish population.
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Kurdish family Lawyer in Konya receiving death threats
Abdurrahman Karabulut, the lawyer for a Kurdish family, seven of whose members were murdered in the central Turkish province of Konya last Friday, has said he has been receiving death threats for representing the family, the JinNews news agency reported on Tuesday.
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Demirtas urges Kurds to faith in science and get vaccinated against coronavirus
Jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas has called on the country’s Kurds to have faith in science and get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
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HDP ended Kurdish peace process, Erdogan claims in Diyarbakir visit
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, to attend the inauguration ceremony for a series of projects, Mezopotamya Agency reported.
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What to expect from the closure case against Turkey's pro-Kurdish HDP / Zulfikar Dogan
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has accepted a request by prosecutors to begin a trial against the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and scores of its senior members for alleged links to terrorism.
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Turkey’s top court accepts indictment to shut HDP
Turkey’s Constitutional Court unanimously accepted an indictment for the closure of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) for alleged links to terrorism, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Monday, June 22.
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Turkey court gives new jail sentence to Demirtas
A Turkish court handed another jail sentence to the country's imprisoned Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtas on Friday, May 28, his party said.
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Against whom is Ankara waging war in Syria: the Kurds or the Kurdish Workers’ Party? / Jiwan Soz
As Turkey continues to take a hardline stance on the Kurds’ legal rights, international organizations and actors should take part in preventing Ankara from expanding further into Syria.
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Turkish court upholds prison sentence against Selahattin Demirtas
The Turkish Court of Cassation on Thursday, April 29, upheld a prison sentence of four years and eight months previously handed down against former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas.
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Erdogan has lost Turkey Kurds forever: Economist Times
The Economist Times wrote in an article that Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have lost Turkish Kurdish voters forever, and with the dissolution of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), the Kurdish vote will go to the opposition parties.
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Demirtas calls on Turkish opposition to unite against Erdogan
Former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas, jailed since 2016 despite Western calls for his release, said the Turkish opposition should unite against rising oppression and moves to divide them, including a court case to ban his party.
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Demirtas says AKP is seeking return to parliamentary system
Imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas said in an interview Gazete Karinca published on Thursday that Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is using discussions on a new constitution for the country to seek a way to walk back the executive presidential system. “The government needs a new and positive narrative,” Demirtas told journalist Nedim Turfent, a Kurdish journalist who has been imprisoned for five years over his coverage of conflict news in Turkey’s southeast and still in the jail while conducting this interview over letters.
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Selahattin Demirtas: we did not meet with PKK and Ocalan, Erdogan did
Former Turkey pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chairperson Selahattin Demirtas made new statements regarding the talks with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) jailed Leader Abdullah Ocalan and the PKK during the Kurdish peace process, which came to the agenda again with the calls for the HDP closure.
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Turkey court sentences Demirtas to 3 years and 6 months for insulting Erdogan
A Turkish court on Monday sentenced the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas, to three-and-half years in prison for insulting the Turkish president, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported.
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Turkey moves to ban pro-Kurdish HDP party
A Turkish prosecutor on Wednesday asked the Constitutional Court to shut down the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), parliament’s third-largest group, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Demirtas says government would change in next Turkey elections
Imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas on Tuesday said the judges presiding over his case deserved to be congratulated for “blatantly violating” a binding ruling by a top European court, and “gifting Turkey another extremely severe rights violation ruling.”
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CHP says party wants to make peace with the Kurds
The deputy chair of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) branch in the Kurdish majority southeastern province of Diyarbakir has said that his party wants to make peace with the Kurds.
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CHP leader: Turkish gov’t looking to punish all opposition Kurds
The Turkish government wishes to punish all of the Kurds in the country, who do not support the ruling alliance, main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said on Saturday.