Sydney's Kurdish community and their supporters took to Martin Place on May 23 in a snap protest against Turkey's increasingly repressive Recep Tayyip Erdogan government after it cancelled the parliamentary immunity of progressive opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) MPs.
This is part of a bloody war the regime has been waging against the Kurdish people since June last year.
Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Sydney Peter Boyle addressed the rally.
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
Turkish forces destroying homes in the Kurdish city of Nusaybin.
The Peoples鈥 Democratic Party (HDP) has published a report on the war crimes, human rights violations and deaths in Kurdish towns and cities since July last year, with a special focus on Cizre, said on April 22.
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.
On March 13, a bomb explosion killed 37 people in the Turkish capital, Ankara. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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.
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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Kur艧unlu mosque in Amed. Damage is from bombardment by the Turkish military.
The following statement was released by Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Figen Y眉ksekda臒 and Selahattin Demirta艧 on March 1.
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Across 58 separate curfews imposed in several neighbourhoods of the 21 districts of 7 Kurdish provinces, 290 citizens have so far lost their lives.
Kurdish women staged a sit-in in Strasbourg against the silence of European institutions over Turkey's crime
A coalition of pro-Kurdish European groups held a five day sit-in in front of European institutions in Strasbourg in eastern France, starting on February 23, to protest Europe's silence on the Turkish government's ongoing massacre of Kurds. The action targeted the European Court of Human Rights.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev said in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt on February 11 that a threatened ground invasion of Syria by Western allies Turkey and possibly Saudi Arabia would lead to a 鈥渘ew world war鈥. On February 18, Hawar News Agency reported that 鈥渄ozens鈥 of Turkish armoured vehicles had advanced 200 metres across the Syrian border.
Turkey is rapidly descending into civil war as the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdo臒an deepens its offensive against the Kurdish population, left-wing opposition parties, journalists and academics.
The Turkish government says it is fighting the armed forces of the left-wing Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), with which the government terminated peace talks last year. But the brunt of the state's violence has been directed against civilians.
The following statement was issued by Women's Freedom Assembly (K脰M) in Turkey/North Kurdistan on January 18. Translation abridged from .
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The Women鈥檚 Freedom Assembly is calling for your solidarity against the war and massacres that we have been living through for the past eight months.
Left-wing members of the European parliament have called on the European Union to pressure the Turkish government to immediately end its attacks against the Kurdish community in northern Kurdistan (southeast Turkey).
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