Abdullah Zeydan, of the pro-Kurdish leftist Peoples Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Parti), was elected in a landslide as co-mayor of the Turkish city of Van in 2024, before the Turkish government suspended him and replaced him with a government-appointed trustee. He spoke to Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg on October 29.
When it comes to bringing Turkey to account for its attack on democracy and human rights abuses against Kurds, the Council of Europe has been kicking the ball into the long grass, yet advocates continue to lobby its politicians and bureaucrats and organise demonstrations outside its gates, writes Sarah Glynn.
The March 31 Turkish local election results showed democracy is alive, but if the opposition wants to win there needs to be unity of the Kurdish and Turkish left, writes Arash Azizi.
Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won 53% of the vote in the June 24 presidential election.
This extends his rule until at least 2023 — but now with the sweeping executive powers narrowly endorsed in a referendum last year.
Destruction wrought by Turkish state in Diyarbakır.
Three-hundred-and-fifty thousand. That is the number of people displaced since the Kurdish-Turkish “resolution process” was interrupted by the Turkish government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last year.
Turkish police repress protests against Erdogan's renewed war.
The outcome of Turkey’s June 7 parliamentary elections promised so much.
One of those injured in June 5 bombing of HDP election rally casts their vote.
