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  1. Turkey: Left party takes centre stage with bold campaign

    Socialism Elections Democracy Dave Holmes Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Justice and ... up to be the most important in a long time. The bold decision of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP ... in the oppressed Kurdish community, the HDP is reaching out to all those oppressed, exploited and ...

  2. Turkey: High stakes for Kurds and Erdogan in coming poll

    Democracy Elections Dave Holmes Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party ... (HDP), led by Selahattin Demirtas, is making headlines with a bold new tactic. Previously its candidates ... HDP is taking a risky gamble, but a recent poll suggests otherwise. The April 5 Today’s Zaman reported ...

  3. Turkey: Erdogan’s ruthless bid to retain power risks return to dark days

    (HDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Justice and Development Party Peoples Democratic Party ... much. The left-wing Kurdish-based People’s Democratic Party (HDP) resoundingly broke the undemocratic ... HDP’s unprecedented success, based on uniting left and progressive forces behind its campaign, ...

  4. Turkish attacks on PKK meet fierce resistance

    Kurdish-based Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), while not yet illegal, is under constant attack. Scores of elected ... HDP mayors have been sacked and replaced by government administrators, thousands of party members are ... in jail, and on June 4 two HDP MPs were illegally removed from office and jailed. In June, two HDP ...

  5. Why the Kurdish struggle is so important

    Elections Dave Holmes Kurdish struggle Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party ... Democratic Party (HDP). Below is the edited text of a speech given by Dave Holmes at the launch of the ... Democratic Party (HDP), the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD). This is ...

  6. The lies that keep the PKK on terror list

    rebuff in the June 7 elections by the left-wing Kurdish-based People’s Democratic Party (HDP), this has ... come around, it is by no means impossible that top HDP leaders may be in jail and the party banned. And ... comments of Ertugrul Kürkçü, then co­leader of the HDP: “Do you want children — who passed to the other ...

  7. Why the ban on the PKK is wrong

    Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan Renas Lelikan Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Since late 2005 the ... wing includes the PKK and the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey, the Democratic Union ...

  8. Turkey: Erdogan manoeuvres to retain power after election shock

    significant and related developments. First, the left-wing People’s Democratic Party (HDP) smashed the ... Assembly. While the HDP’s core support lies in the oppressed Kurdish community, the party reached out to all ... stance. It refuses to even talk to the HDP, let alone be in coalition with it or in a coalition dependent ...

  9. Greens leader supports Kurdish rights

    Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey at a Kurdish solidarity meeting at the Victorian Trades Hall on November 17. ... condemned the current crackdown by the regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The HDP’s joint ...