KT Report: BDP co-president Selahattin Demirtaş yesterday opposed the Turkish government’s draft bill on the MIT (National Intelligence Organisation), rejecting claims that it creates a legal basis for the talks between the Turkish state and the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. “This is not what we mean when we talk about a legal basis or…
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BDP MPs hold press conference on Öcalan and the peace process
By ANF / Rojava Report: BDP MPs have held a press conference in the Turkish Parliament in Ankara. Pervin Buldan, İdris Baluken and Diyarbakir MP Altan Tan all took part. The MPs discussed the recent meetings with imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, ongoing negotiations with the state, and the fragile condition of the peace process…
Demirtaş blasts Erdogan: ‘Let the people govern themselves’
KT News: Selahattin Demirtaş, co-president of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) told a party meeting yesterday that Turkey’s 30th March local election results will be ‘surprising for many’. ANF reports him as saying that the conflict between the ruling AKP and the Gülen Movement is not about democracy, and that the people will teach…
‘No justice’ for Roboski massacre victims
KT News: A Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) leader yesterday denounced the decision of Turkish military prosecutors that there will be no prosecutions in relation to the December 2011 Roboski massacre. “With today’s verdict, one more blow has been inflicted on justice,” said Sebahat Tuncel, deputy co-chairwoman of the BDP. “I denounce the Roboski massacre….
Turkey and Europe are backing jihadist gangs in Rojava: Demirtas
KT News: Thousands joined rallies yesterday called by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and marched to the Turkey/Syria border – from Mardin’s Nusaybin district and Şırnak’s Cizre district – to show solidarity with Rojava Kurds and protest against the ‘walls of shame’ that Turkey is building along the Kurdish areas of this border. BDP co-chair…
BDP and HDP delegation visits Öcalan
KT News: A delegation from the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) and the recently-formed HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Congress) is due to meet PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) leader Abdullah Öcalan in his İmralı island prison today. The delegation comprises BDP group deputy chairs Pervin Buldan and İdris Baluken, and HDP co-chair Sırrı Süreyya Önder. Bookmark on…
No peace deal for Kurds without Öcalan: Pervin Buldan
KT News: Leading Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) MP Pervin Buldan told a meeting this weekend that there is no chance of a successful conclusion to the peace process without the involvement of PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) leader Abdullah Öcalan. “As the Kurdish people, we declare once again that we will never accept a peace…
BDP holds primaries in Diyarbakır
KT News: With local elections due in March 2014, the pro-Kurd Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) is today holding primary elections in Diyarbakır to select its candidates for mayoral and city council positions. According to ANF, the BDP has received more than 10,000 applications across the country from people wanting to stand for the party…
Facebook double-standard: ‘Bans BDP – but not al Qaeda’
Report by bianet: “We must use alternative means of communication. Political groups must form their own channels,” said the Alternatif Bilişim Association Chair, Keleş, reacting to Facebook’s decision to close down the page of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Istanbul organization. Keleş claimed that Facebook had double standards in practice, considering that it was…
Demirtaş to Erdoğan: ‘Who are you to give rights like charity?’
KT News: Selahattin Demirtaş, the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chairperson, yesterday accused the AKP government of effectively halting the peace process between Kurds and the Turkish state. At a press conference in Amed, reported by bianet, he criticized as inadequate the ‘democratisation package’ announced recently by prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “The package has nothing to…
No solution without the right to education in Kurdish: Selahattin Demirtaş
KT News: Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş condemned Turkey’s AKP government on two key issues at a press conference on Friday, reports Radikal and bianet. First, he denounced the AKP’s continued refusal to allow Kurds to be educated in Kurdish: “The Constitution Resolution Commission took 1982 Constitution as basis for its new…
Öcalan ‘salutes’ Turkey protest movement
In a letter handed to BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) leader Abdullah Öcalan expressed his support for the protests that have engulfed Turkey this past week, beginning with a demonstration against the demolition of Gezi Park in Istanbul and escalating following the violent police reaction. “I…
The PYD factor forces Turkey to have a peace process with the PKK
By Dr Aland Mizell: Let me be clear. I am for peace, and I support any step toward the peace process, because innocent people are paying the price. Therefore, I salute the BDP (Kurdish Peace Democratic Party), the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), and even the Turkish government for their courage in trying to end violence…
BDP to report on latest talks with Ocalan
KT News: A delegation of three Kurdish politicians has today been meeting with the long-incarcerated PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, marking a new stage in the current peace process. BDP deputy Parliamentary Group Chair Pervin Buldan, Istanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Diyarbakır deputy Altan Tan travelled from Istanbul this morning for İmralı island, where Öcalan…
BDP and PKK leadership must be involved in peace talks, says Demirtaş
KT News: Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş yesterday denied Turkish media reports that a delegation of three Kurdish politicians (Ahmet Türk, Ayla Akat and Sırrı Sakık) was about to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan on his Imrali island prison. In a statement, Demirtaş said: “We request that you do not pay…
