It has been six months since imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah 脰calan鈥檚 call聽for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party, giving rise to hopes of a new 鈥減eace process鈥, writes Sarah Glynn. But are the Kurds聽any closer to seeing a peaceful future in Turkey and beyond?
Turkey
When聽Istanbul Mayor Ekrem 陌mamo臒lu was detained by the Turkish state, the country was rocked by its largest protests in a decade, which, despite a violent crackdown, have only grown more creative and resilient, writes聽Ela Buruk.
Nil眉fer Ko莽 is the spokesperson for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress, a coalition of political parties and civil society organisations from Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. She spoke to聽91自拍论坛聽about the challenges ahead following the historic call by imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah 脰calan for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers鈥 Party.
91自拍论坛鈥檚 Peter Boyle spoke to Ebru G眉nay after she visited Australia with a Peoples鈥 Equality and Democracy Party delegation from Turkey.
Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah 脰calan鈥檚 freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devri艧 脟imen.
A deputy of the People鈥檚 Equality and Democracy Party has made public in the Turkish parliament the details of his meeting with imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah 脰calan, reports Medya News.
In an all-too-familiar action, Turkey鈥檚 interior ministry removed three democratically elected co-mayors from three Kurdish-majority cities 鈥 Mardin (M锚rd卯n), Batman (El卯h) and Halfeti (Xelf锚t卯) 鈥 and replaced them with state-appointed trustees, reports Peter Boyle.
A new global campaign has been launched to demand the freedom for former People's Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Y眉ksekda臒 and other activists imprisoned by the Turkish state, reports Peter Boyle.
Leaders of Turkey鈥檚 pro-Kurdish opposition condemned the recent Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Rafah, Gaza, and called for Turkey to sever military and commercial relations with Israel, reports Medya News.
Sarah Glynn looks behind Turkey's March 31 municipal elections, which saw President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an's AKP pushed into second place and the pro-Kurdish Peoples Equality and Democracy Party make gains.
This year marks the centenary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne. It gave tacit endorsement to the ethnic cleansing begun in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and was a disaster for the human rights of Kurds, Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians, living within the new borders it created, writes John Tully.
In the course of just one week in late September, the entire population of ethnic Armenians fled Nagorno-Karabakh. Leo Earle looks behind this mass exodus.
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