KURDISTAN

Back to homepage

Poll: New CHP unable to come to power, solve Kurdish question 0

Loading

Post Views: 9 BETÜL AKKAYA DEM?RBA? ?STANBUL A recent change in the administration of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) has boosted hopes for a stronger opposition as well as concerted efforts for broader freedoms and improved democracy, but there is

Read More

“Bilingual Life” Project Fuels Interest in Kurdish Language 0

Loading

Post Views: 9 Besim Baykal, President of the Kurdish KURD?-DER association, sees education in the mother tongue as a key to a solution of the Kurdish question. In the course of the recent discussion on the “bilingual life” project, applications

Read More

Jailed PKK head critical of Kurdish autonomy demands 0

Loading

Post Views: 12 TODAY’S ZAMAN Abdullah Öcalan was seen during his trial in the prison island of ?mral? in 1999. Head of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan has criticized the Democratic Society Congress’ (DTK) demand for a Kurdish

Read More

Gül emphasizes Turkish as official language in first Diyarbak?r speech 0

Loading

Post Views: 14 TODAY’S ZAMAN ?STANBUL   Diyarbak?r Mayor Osman Baydemir warmly welcomed President Abdullah Gül at the Diyarbak?r airport yesterday. President Abdullah Gül, who was in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, where his visit was expected to calm tension

Read More

Democratic autonomy offers draconian, Marxist-style rules for Kurds 0

Loading

Post Views: 9 AY?E KARABATANKARA The Democratic Society Congress presented the first comprehensive draft of its “Democratic Autonomous Kurdistan Model” at a conference in Diyarbak?r last Sunday. While last week’s debate on autonomy and bilingualism for the predominantly Kurdish region

Read More

‘Syria pledges to keep PKK leaders on own soil’ 0

Loading

Post Views: 8 ERCAN YAVUZ ANKARA Turkey and Syria have signed what can be termed a historic deal in the fight against terrorism. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad Naji al-Otri, who was in Turkey on

Read More

Bilingual debate turns into autonomy discussion, triggering wave of criticism 0

Loading

Post Views: 19 AY?E KARABATANKARA BDP Co-chairman Selahattin Demirta? and other BDP officials are seen in Parliament on their way to the office of Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali ?ahin for a meeting. The bilingual debate, kicked off by a pro-Kurdish

Read More

Víctimas de la violencia estatal 0

Loading

Post Views: 10 La Cámara de Gasteiz declara estar dispuesta a reconocer a víctimas de la violencia estatal Los grupos del Parlamento de Gasteiz se mostraron ayer dispuestos a trabajar por el reconocimiento y la reparación de las víctimas de

Read More

Leyla Zana speech at European Parliament Conference 0

Loading

Post Views: 17 On 17 and 18 November the European Parliament hosted the 7th International Conference on EU, Turkey and the Kurds. Among other prominent speakers was also former DEP Kurdish MP, Leyla Zana who spent 10 years in prison.

Read More

Demirtas: building trust means recognizing all parties as equals 0

Loading

Post Views: 8 Speaking at the 7th International Conference at the European Union on EU, Turkey and the Kurdish issue, BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtas says that the main issue now is “building trust among the parties

Read More