Co-chair of Turkey鈥檚 left-wing, Kurdish-led Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirta艧 has told the media that the Turkish government had transformed into a perverted cult that bombs mosques and massacres civilians.
Demirta艧 made the comments on a visit to the vigil for jailed academics in Bak谋rk枚y Women鈥檚 Closed Prison on April 26.
Co-chair of Turkey's left-wing, Kurdish-led Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirta艧 has told the media that the Turkish government had transformed into a perverted cult that bombs mosques and massacres civilians.
Kurdistan
The struggles of Kurdish women in Rojava Kurdistan (Northern Syria) became known to many people in the world during the brutal attacks of ISIS against the city of Koban锚 in September 2014.
The Peoples鈥 Democratic Party (HDP), a Kurdish-led party that has united a swath of Turkey鈥檚 broad left, has proposed a new law in parliament to establish peace and legally guarantee all peace talks regarding the Kurdish question.
The move comes as the Turkish government, having ended peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party (PKK) last year, carries out a brutal war on largely Kurdish areas in Turkey.
鈥淭he police and military are using every kind of violence against the Kurds. They are using tanks and heavy armoured vehicles. They have flattened houses, historical places, mosques. They use helicopters and technological weapons, night vision binoculars and drones. They don't let families get to the bodies of youths who were killed. Corpses remain on the streets for weeks.鈥
Baran, a Kurdish political activist who now lives in exile, described the massacres taking place in Kurdish cities in Turkey. Baran is from Amed, or Diyarbak谋r in Turkish.
Flag of PKK with image of Abdullah Ocalan.
Millions of Kurds view Abdullah 脰calan as their political representative. His freedom is directly linked to a democratic and peaceful solution to the war in Turkey.
Freedom of speech in Turkey is deteriorating at a rate of knots. This week, a British academic was deported from the country with no trial and three academics were arrested, all accused of disseminating terrorist material. Earlier this month, Zaman 鈥 a widely-read newspaper critical of the regime 鈥 was seized and placed under control of a board of trustees by an Istanbul court.
On March 17, after a two-day meeting held in the town of Girk锚 Leg锚 (Al-Muabbada) in Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan), a Constituent Assembly established a 鈥淩ojava-Northern Syria Democratic Federal System鈥.
The Constituent Assembly was attended by 31 parties and 200 delegates representing Rojava's Koban锚, Efr卯n and Ciz卯r锚 cantons and the Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Syriac, Armenian, Turkmen and Chechen peoples of Gir锚 Sp卯 (Tal Abyad), Shaddadi, Aleppo and Shehba regions.
Chris Stephenson in the Istanbul court house shortly before his arrest on March 15.
Update: Supporters in Istanbul reported that Chris Stephenson was deported on March 16. There are unconfirmed reports that he will be charged in absentia to prevent his return.
British academic Chris Stephenson, of Istanbul's Bilgi University, is in detention awaiting deportation after being arrested on March 15 when he went to an Istanbul court to support three other detained academics.
Parliamentarians from the Kurdish-led left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), Osman Baydemir, Ali Atalan and Faik Ya臒谋zay, used a press conference in the European Parliament hosted by the European United Left/Nordic 91自拍论坛 (GUE/NGL) to draw attention to the Turkish state鈥檚 war against the Kurdish population.
Turkish military bombardment of Sur, Diyarbak谋r.
The Turkish government has a post-war plan to offer Kurds high-end housing in exchange for civil obedience.
Sur is a district in Turkey's southeast, part of the Kurdish capital Diyarbak谋r, that has been exposed to a round-the-clock curfew since December 2.
The European Left Parties Solidarity With Kurdish People conference was held in the Kurdish city of Amed in south-eastern Turkey on February 20.
It was organised by the People鈥檚 Democratic Party (HDP), Democratic Society Congress (DTK), the Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) and the Free Women鈥檚 Congress (KJA).
The conference released a declaration, published below. It is reprinted from ANF News.
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A 鈥渃essation of hostilities鈥 in Syria, sponsored by the United States and Russia, came into force on February 27. Only some of the internal and foreign participants in Syria's multi-sided conflicts signed on.
The air wars that the US and Russia are waging in Syria are both officially directed against ISIS. But in reality, Russia is keen to protect its ally, the dictator Bashar al-Assad, while the US and its regional allies, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, have given money, weapons and logistical and diplomatic support to his opponents since the civil war began in 2011.
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