By Arian Mufid: In light of Monday’s events in Turkey in which prominent Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (HDP) MP Ahmet Turk was arrested, I reflected on the time three years ago in July 2013 when I met this great man for 25 minutes in Erbil, the capital of south Kurdistan. Following the meeting I…
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Category Archives: HDP
Urgent Call: Worsening Situation in Turkish Prisons
By Hişyar Özsoy, Deputy Co-chair of HDP Responsible for Foreign Affairs: Recently there have been several news and claims in the Turkish and international media that uprisings might be provoked in the prisons of Turkey to provide the government the excuse and opportunity to execute planned massacres against prisoners. We know that the government has…
The Plight of Leyla Birlik: UK MEP is Barred from Visiting the Jailed HDP MP
By Julie Ward, MEP: Leyla Birlik is one of 10 HDP deputies who have been imprisoned by the Turkish state in the last 3 weeks following the brutal crackdown on political opposition. Leyla is a democratically elected MP representing Sirnak in Southern Turkey. She was elected on November 1st 2015 when HDP won 59 seats…
The Repression And War Crimes Inflicted On Turkey’s Kurds
By John Hunt: This article was first published by the Morning Star “Be Smart, We’ll Be Back.” Neatly stencilled onto a wall in central Nusaybin, the warning is less crude than other graffiti scrawled by Turkish soldiers on walls and inside homes after they’ve besieged and pulverised Kurdish towns across south-east Turkey, but in context…
Free HDP and Divest From Turkish Fascism: International Appeal and Message of Solidarity
Joint Statement by Armenian, Kurdish and Ezidi Organizations in the USA: We express our outrage at the arbitrary arrests of Turkey’s opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, and its 10 MPs on November 4, 2016. With the charges of treason and association with terrorism, HDP MPs are the latest victims…
HDP: We Will Win – No Matter What!
HDP Statement, issued in Diyarbakir: We would like to begin our statement by first condemning the bomb attack that took place in Diyarbakır on November 4, 2016. We wish mercy on those who lost their lives and extend our condolences to their relatives and to our people. We wish a swift recovery to the injured…
The End of Democracy in Turkey
HDP Statement: Last night the purge of President Erdogan against our party has reached another peak: our Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yüksekdag, along with 11 further Members of Parliament of our party have been detained across Turkey last night. More arrests are to be expected. The goal of these measures is to shut down…
HDP: Urgent Call for Solidarity on the Closure and Storming of the Daily Özgür Gündem
HDP Statement: On August 16, 2016, Erdoğan regime’s attack on the media and press since the July 15 abortive coup took a different turn by the closure of the daily Özgür Gündem on court orders and the storming of its Istanbul headquarters by special operations police. The quarter-of-a-century-long history of Özgür Gündem represents all there…
Police Raid on HDP Istanbul Headquarters
HDP Statement: The Istanbul headquarters of HDP, the third largest party in the parliament representing the will of more than five million voters, was ravaged and vandalized by Turkish Police Special Operations teams at 3.00 a.m. on 11 August. Backed by a helicopter and armored vehicles, the police broke in the building like gangs; they…
Demirtas: As Ocalan Predicted, Erdogan’s War Against Kurds Triggered the Coup Mechanism
INTERVIEW BY OSMAN OĞUZ/HABER MERKEZİ, YENİ ÖZGÜR POLİTİKA: Re-published from https://hdpenglish.wordpress.com/ We talked with HDP Co-Leader Selahattin Demirtaş about the attempted coup that took place on July 15. What happened still needs a general definition. What was exactly was it we went through? First of all, it is obvious that there has been an attempted military coup…
HDP: The Only Solution is Democratic Politics!
By Figen Yüksekdağ & Selahattin Demirtaş, HDP Co-Chairs: In this challenging and critical days which Turkey goes through, whatever its reason might be, no one should put himself in the place of the people’s will. The HDP is opposed to any kind of coup under any circumstances and as a principle. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend…
Turkey is Losing the Kurds and the War Against Kurds
By Ozkan Kocakaya: When Erdogan declared war on the PKK last July, nobody could have foreseen the levels to which it was to be escalated and the widespread destruction of Kurdish towns it would result in. It is widely acknowledged that the war is politically motivated, and whilst it may have consolidated the nationalists’ vote…
The International Silence on Turkey’s Onslaught on Kurdish People is Harming Democracy and Peace
By Rebwar Rahid: On May 20, 2016, the Turkish Parliament, under the majority of Erdogan’s AK Party, took another step towards strengthening a totalitarian system in Turkey by voting for legislation removing the parliamentary immunity of 148 members of the Parliament (MPs). Most of the charges though are directed at the members of the Peoples’…
Lifting the Legislative Immunities of HDP Members is a Coup Against the Will of Peoples and the Consolidation of One-Man Rule
By Eyyup Doru, HDP Representative in Europe: On May 20th, 2016, under extreme pressure of President Erdoğan, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) lifted the parliamentary immunity of 138 lawmakers through a provisional Constitutional amendment. This became possible with the joint efforts of an anti-Kurdish Turkish nationalist alliance formed among the ruling AKP, the…
Oppose the Lifting of Immunity of HDP Deputies – Open Letter to UK Prime Minister David Cameron
By the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: The decision that is about to be taken by Turkey to lift the immunity of deputies (MPs) belonging to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will be a totally lamentable move and should be opposed in the most unambiguous terms. This long threatened action proposed by the ruling AKP government…
