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  1. Attacks on Kurds reveal Turkey's Western-backed terror hypocrisy

    Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) ... the Turkish government is proposing setting up a buffer zone. HDP under attack Turkish President Recep ... Democratic Party (HDP). The HDP is a Kurdish-led party that brought together a coalition of ethnic and ...

  2. Rojava fights off new Islamic State attack

    left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). The PKK is now in stalled peace talks with the government. The HDP ... made significant gains in recent elections. At a June 25 press conference HDP co-chair Figen Yuksekdag ... described the attack as 鈥渁n act of revenge鈥 for the HDP's electoral success and the liberation of Gir锚 ...

  3. Rojava fights off new IS attack

    International solidarity Democracy Tony Iltis Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Rojava ... Party (HDP). The PKK is now in stalled peace talks with the government. The HDP made significant gains ... in recent elections. At a June 25 press conference HDP co-chair Figen Yuksekdag described the attack ...

  4. Turkey: Erdo臒an imprisons parliamentary opposition and silences media

    Democratic Party (HDP) Peoples Democratic Party Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an The regime of Turkish President Recep ... were issued for all 59 Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MPs by the Diyarbakir Chief ... Prosecutor's Office. Thirteen HDP deputies including party leaders Selahattin Demirta艧 and Figen Y眉ksekda臒 were ...

  5. Turkey: West's ally Erdo臒an pushes deadly electoral strategy

    Democracy Elections Imperialism & war Tony Iltis Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Islamic ... against Kurds and other minorities, as well as the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). The violence ... in the 550 seat parliament. It was the HDP that thwarted the AKP's ambitions, by winning 80 ...

  6. Turkey: Erdogan pushes all-out war against civilians

    Imperialism & war Anti-racism Democracy Tony Iltis Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP ... Party (HDP), leftists and the Kurdish population ensured that the AKP won the majority that it failed to ... win in the earlier June 7 election. However, the HDP still passed the 10% threshold needed to gain ...

  7. Turkey's war on Kurds escalates Syrian conflict

    Party (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection ... advances by the pro-Kurdish, left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey were met by an increasingly ... routinely targeted Erdo臒an's opponents. This included the October bombing of an HDP election rally that ...

  8. Turkey: Government implicated in ISIS suicide attack

    Democratic Party (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ... the left wing Kurdish-based Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) in the June 7 Turkish election, whose ... parliament. The HDP's electoral success was based on bringing together a broad coalition of leftists, ...

  9. Turkey: Crackdown intensifies against media and opposition

    Party (HDP) The crackdown by the Turkish regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an against the democratic ... targeted the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), with 55 out of 58 HDP MPs facing terrorism charges. ... On November 2, HDP co-chair Figen Y眉ksekda臒 had a 10 month prison sentence confirmed for attending ...

  10. Turkey: After failed coup, Erdo臒an cracks down

    Democracy Tony Iltis Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ... frustrated last year by the success of the left-wing Kurdish-led People's Democratic Party (HDP) in ... civil society. The purge deepened pre-existing moves by Erdo臒an to control these institutions. The HDP ...

  11. Behind Turkey's war on the Kurds

    Iltis Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an ... the Kurdish-led left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), which did well in both of last year's ... thwarted by an unprecedented strong showing by the HDP, which won more than 13% and drew together the ...

  12. Rojava revolutionaries show how to fight 'Islamic State'

    (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's ... of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). The HDP is a Kurdish-based left-wing party that united ... society activists in a rainbow coalition. The HDP campaigned in solidarity with the anti-IS resistance in ...

  13. Turkey launches genocidal invasion of Rojava

    at the time) was its affinity to another group in Turkey 鈥 the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP ... much in common with Rojava. Relentless persecution has not prevented the HDP from gaining increasing ... governments it controls sacked. In 2015 state violence against HDP-controlled municipalities in Bakur included ...

  14. 锘縉ow Turkey is bombing Kurdish-led revolutionaries in Syria 鈥 with Western complicity

    Party (HDP) that is facing growing repression from the Erdogan regime. The Erdogan regime鈥檚 hostility to ... the ideological allies of the PKK and HDP is consistent. What is less consistent is the approach of ...

  15. Abbott's Syria war will create more refugees

    (HDP) in Turkey, the Turkish government ended the ceasefire and launched an all-out war against the ... repression of the HDP and bombing of PKK-held areas in Iraq. At the same time, Turkey joined the US-led ...

  16. After Brussels, putting terrorism in perspective

    People's Democratic Party (HDP) rally. This took place three weeks before an election at a time when the ... HDP was the victim of brutal election related violence from security forces and ruling party thugs. ...

  17. Kurds betrayed: How serious is the US about fighting ISIS?

    Democratic Party (HDP) won 80 seats in parliament 鈥 and in doing so denied the AKP the majority it sought. ... HDP activists have been targeted in the recent crackdown. The other threat driving the Turkish state ...

  18. Anti-terrorist journalist arrested under anti-terrorist laws

    Party (HDP) won enough electoral support to stop the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of President ...

  19. Behind the US's confusing, shifting Syria policy

    democratic opposition in Turkey, represented electorally by the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). The rise of ...

  20. Iraq: Mosul offensive poses new questions amid Western hypocrisy

    crackdown on academics, journalists and the left wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) 鈥 and from its brutal ...

  21. Foreign intervention worsens Syria crisis

    deepened when the Kurdish-led left-wing party, Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), won more than 13% in June ...

  22. Behind Turkey's US-backed invasion of Rojava

    targeted the wedding of two members of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). This electorally successful ...

  23. Turkey declares war on Syria's democratic hope

    Kurdish-led progressive opposition in Turkey, including the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) whose ...

  24. A look at Rojava's democratic, feminist revolution

    Party (HDP) in Turkey's elections, the Turkish government decided it had to act 鈥 launching a new ...