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HDP executives: We won’t accept this coup!
Amed Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor Selçuk Mızraklı and HDP Deputy Meral Danış Beştaş stated that they do not recognize the trustee: “Everyone should take responsibility.”
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418 people detained following AKP seizure of municipalities
Post Views: 33 HDP-run Amed, Mardin and Van metropolitan municipalities have been seized by the AKP regime once again in the early hours of the morning. In parallel, police operations have been carried out in dozens of cities and hundreds
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HDP: We will not be silenced, we will not be stopped”
We publish below the press release by the HDP about the seizure by the AKP regime of the municipalities of Amed, Mardin and Van
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Erdogan’s regime seized Amed, Mardin and Van municipalities
Co-mayors of Amed, Mardin and Van municipalities were removed from office and the municipalities were placed under police blockade
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EUROPEAN MP JULIE WARD: SAVE HASANKEYF
Member of the European Parliament, Julie Ward, sent a letter to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, urging him to make representations to the Turkish government regarding the threat to Hasankeyf and the negative impacts of the Ilisu Dam
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Turkish government sent Syrian refugees to Afrin
The Governorship of Istanbul announced on 22 July that the Syrian refugees not registered in the city would have to leave Istanbul in less than a month
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Turkish authorities blocked some 55,000 websites in 2018
Istanbul-based Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD) released the English version of its “Assessment Report on Blocked Websites, News Articles and Social Media Content From Turkey”
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Turkey bombed Maxmur Camp
Turkish army’s jets have bombed the vicinity of Martyr Rustem Cudi Camp (Maxmur), injuring two civilian
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Aydemir: Cinema helps to build Kurds’ collective memory
Interview with Hasim Aydemir, director of the film “14 Tirmeh” (14 July). The film is somehow a ‘first’ in that opened the way to bring to cinema the resistance and more in general the 40-year long struggle of the Kurdish people
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Demolition of monument to humanity violated rights of sculptor
The Constitutional Court ruled that the demolition of the “Monument to Humanity” in Kars violated the right to freedom of expression of its author
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