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Rights advocate MP petitions top court over jail sentence

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has petitioned Turkey’s Constitutional Court, claiming that his right to freedom of expression was violated...

Top EU official criticizes Turkey’s crackdown on pro-Kurdish HDP

A high-ranking official from the European Union has criticized Turkey for its growing pressure on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), dozens of whose...

Turkish authorities arrest disabled bomb disposal expert on terrorism conviction

Bilal Konakçı, a bomb disposal expert with the police who lost his hand and was blinded in an explosion, was arrested on Feb.21 after...

ECtHR requests Turkey’s defense for imprisonment of Kurdish leader over Kobani protests

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has asked Turkey to provide its defense for the pre-trial detention of Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş in...

Local Kurdish politician in İstanbul arrested on terrorism charges

A district co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in İstanbul has been arrested on terrorism charges, according to Turkish media reports. On Jan....

EP calls on Turkey to enforce ECtHR ruling for immediate release of Demirtaş

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday calling on Turkey to comply with a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...

Turkey sends pro-Kurdish deputy to pretrial detention in terrorism trial

Amid an ongoing crackdown on Kurdish politicians in Turkey, a court has ruled for the arrest and pretrial detention of a former deputy from...

Politicians, journalist among 48 detained in İzmir-based counterterrorism operation

A total of 48 people, including politicians and a journalist critical of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), were detained as part of...

Turkey drafts new indictment against jailed Kurdish leader

Turkish prosecutors have drafted an indictment for 108 people, including jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, in connection to street protests in the country’s Southeast...

Turkish court upholds terrorism conviction of bomb disposal expert blinded in an explosion

Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld a conviction and sentence on the charge of membership in a terrorist organization handed down to Bilal Konakçı,...

Former Kurdish deputy arrested after court hands down lengthy prison sentence

Leyla Güven, a Kurdish politician who was ousted from the Turkish Parliament in June and handed down a sentence of 22 years, three months...

What will Turkey’s nationalist actors do with the HDP and the ‘Kurdish Issue’?

Alin Ozinian Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of Turkey’s extreme-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), called for the closure of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on...

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