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Back to homepageKurdistan Communities Union trial starts amid protests 0
Post Views: 8 AY?E KARABATANKARA The Diyarbak?r 6th High Criminal Court will not hear any other cases until Nov. 12. Altogether around 1,500 individuals were arrested during the KCK operations launched last year. The trial of the Kurdistan Communities
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Tomorrow and Tuesday the Kurdish people on the dock
Post Views: 15 Tomorrow in Diyarbakir over a hundred Kurdish politicians and activists will appear in Court. Many of them have been in jail almost one year. Many are elected representatives. People chosen, in free elections, by voters to represent
Read MoreSyria might grant conditional amnesty to PKK members 0
Post Views: 14 AY?E KARABATDamascus has once more underlined that it is ready to grant amnesty to Syrian members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), but according to experts, Syria can take this step only if Turkey does so
Read MoreVictims seek legal redress for Diyarbak?r Prison atrocities 0
Post Views: 16 Victims seek legal redress for Diyarbak?r Prison atrocities ?SMAIL AVCI Thirty years have passed, but the alleged crimes against humanity perpetrated behind the infamous Diyarbak?r Prison’s thick walls are set to be open to judicial oversight
Read MoreNoam Chomsky says the North of Ireland peace process can be a model for solution of the Kurdish problem. 0
Post Views: 18 Chomsky — a world-renowned linguist and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Richard Falk and other academics, intellectuals and journalists met this weekend at Istanbul Bilgi University for the 7th annual “Gathering in Istanbul for Freedom
Read MoreCHP report signals change in approach to Kurdish issue 0
Post Views: 9 CHP report signals change in approach to Kurdish issueERCAN YAVUZ Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu A draft report on Turkey’s Kurdish issue still being worked on by the Republican People’s Party (CHP) is a sign of change inside the main
Read MoreBDP’s decentralization proposal debated in Turkey 0
Post Views: 38 ?ZG? GÜNGÖR ANKARA Hürriyet Daily News Turkey’s strong centralist structure could use some shaking up, many seem to agree, but the pro-Kurdish party’s call for decentralization is seen by its critics as a threat to national unity.
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Several Approaches – No Concrete Steps
Post Views: 27 KURDISH QUESTIONSeveral Approaches – No Concrete StepsTahmaz from the Turkish Peace Parliament thinks that the government is not going to take concrete steps towards a solution of the Kurdish question before the election in 2011. Kurdish politician
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PKK extends unilateral ceasefire
Post Views: 28 Head of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Confederation Murat Karayilan stated that they have extended the unilateral ceasefire declared on 13 August for another month. “The ceasefire will be reviewed in a month time and
Read MoreTurkey closer to settlement of Kurdish issue, say civil groups 0
Post Views: 13 The government has for the past few months been focused on finding a peaceful and democratic solution to the Kurdish issue. The efforts have come to fruition recently, with an atmosphere of non-violence between the Turkish security
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