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Jailed Kurdish leader calls on constituency to forget the past, vote on Sunday

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş called on his constituency to cast their ballots on Sunday in line with the strategy of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...

German gov’t says it’s taking torture, maltreatment allegations in Turkey seriously

The German government has announced that it is taking claims about torture and maltreatment in Turkey very seriously and is following the trials of political inmates,...

Jailed Kurdish leader seeks support from MEPs for lawmaker on hunger strike

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş called on Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to speak out in support of deputy Leyla Güven, who has...

Turkey detains journalists, politicians in large-scale operation against HDP

Turkish police on Wednesday carried out raids and took into custody scores of people including journalists working for Kurdish media outlets and members of...

President Erdoğan equates Turkey’s Kurdish political party to terrorist PKK

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday told state broadcaster TRT News that he considers the Kurdish political movement’s People’s Democratic Party (HDP) the...

Jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş nominated for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

Former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been jailed in Turkey since November 2016, has been nominated for...

Demirtaş: Lack of computer facilities in prison makes defending himself impossible

Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has said it is technically impossible for him to provide a proper defense since digital documents containing the charges...

Former AKP deputy on Sarah Jessica Parker: Ardent supporter of Israel, father is Jewish

Following a report that famous American actress Sarah Jessica Parker is to publish a jailed Kurdish politician’s book, a former deputy from the governing...

Jailed Kurdish politician Demirtaş defies court, accuses judges of partiality

Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in his defense on Wednesday challenged the court and accused...

Ankara court rejects Demirtaş’s request for release based on ECtHR ruling

A high criminal court in Turkish capital of Ankara has rejected a petition from the lawyers of jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş demanding his...

HDP deputy Önder sent to prison after sentence upheld by appeals court

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder was sent to prison after his three year, six month sentence was upheld by an İstanbul...

Regional appeals court upholds Kurdish politician Demirtaş’s sentence

A regional appeals court in Turkey has upheld Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş’s four year, eight month prison sentence for disseminating terrorist propaganda, the Gazete...

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