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1. Turkish state removes three democratically elected Kurdish mayors

   Forty-eight of the remaining 59 pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) mayors were later removed and ... exile. After the 2014 local elections, 97 out of 102 HDP mayors elected were removed and replaced by ... Democracy Party (DEM), which replaced the HDP after it was banned. They were elected with clear majorities ...

2. Free Figen Yüksekdağ!

   Peter Boyle Kobane Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) In May this year, the long-running “Kobanê ... of the left-wing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtaş (42 years imprisnment) and ... Democratic Party (HDP), which regrouped several leftist and pro-Kurdish rights groups. In June 2014, she was ...

3. Behind Turkey’s democratic veneer — a Kurdish perspective

   Justice and Development Party (AKP) Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Peoples' Equality and ... Zeydan. Zeydan had been elected as an MP for the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) — DEM Party’s predecessor ... way. Forty-eight of the remaining 59 HDP mayors elected were later removed and replaced by ...

4. Leila Khaled on the Kurdish struggle

   spoken at congresses of the pro-Kurdish rights Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey, now replaced by ... told the HDP congress: “We struggle together against Zionism, against imperialism and bigotry.” Khaled ... Palestine March 22, 2024 1402 Leila Khaled at the HDP congress in 2018. Photo: ANF English Who’s afraid of ...

5. Turkey: Erdoğan attempts to ban pro-Kurdish party ahead of snap poll

   Democratic Party (HDP) �鶹��ý Party (YSP) Turkey will go to election on May 14, after President Recep ... Tayyip Erdoğan called a snap poll, and the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) will likely be ... forced use a different party name, due to a politically-motivated trial against it. The HDP’s executive ...

6. HDP: ‘Turkey has a history of blood-soaked electioneering’

   Kurdistan Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kobane Rojava Autonomous Administration of North and East ... Syria (AANES) The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey has called for immediate action ... elections due next year in Turkey, the HDP says the timing of these attacks is designed to boost support for ...

7. Turkey: HDP holds 5th congress amid repression

   Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) About 30,000 people, including more than 100 international guests, attended ... the 5th Congress of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Ankara, Turkey on July 3. The Turkish ... state is trying to ban the HDP, the third largest party in the Turkish parliament and has imprisoned ...

8. Turkey: HDP, Kurds persecuted by the Erdogan regime

   Kurdistan Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) November 4 was the fifth anniversary of the imprisonment of ... Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Figen Yüksekdag and Selahattin Demirtas by the Turkish state. The ... HDP has been resisting these and other arbitrary and systematic repressions. Various trials are ...

9. Turkish presidential election goes to second round

   (YSP) Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) The Turkish general election on May 14 had mixed results. On ... Party (HDP) was forced at the last minute to contest as the �鶹��ý Party (YSP) and as a result had ... which has more recently promised to peacefully resolve the Kurdish question and to release former HDP ...

10. Podcast: The Kobane case — a Turkish show trial

    Sarah Glynn Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kobane Podcast Sarah Glynn backgrounds ... (HDP) — the third largest party in the Turkish parliament —  to life imprisonment. April 23, 2021 Turkey ... state Turkey: HDP calls for international solidarity as show trial begins ...

11. Turkey: Former HDP leader denounces show trial as ‘political revenge’

    Democratic Party (HDP) Kobane The show trial of 108 leaders, elected representatives and activists from the ... Turkey. The defendants are accused of instigating violence and deaths because the HDP called for peaceful ... killed by state security services and associated paramilitary groups in the process. HDP members are ...

12. Turkey: Erdoğan’s unfair election win poses grave danger for democracy and Kurds

    2023 Turkish elections Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) �鶹��ý Party (YSP) Kurds Rojava While ... (DBP), �鶹��ý Party, and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) — which had been blocked from participating ... Kurdish question and release former HDP chairperson Selahattin Demirtas, imprisoned since 2016 on trumped ...

13. Turkey: HDP calls for international solidarity as show trial begins

    Democratic Party (HDP) Kobane The progressive Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey has called for ... prosecution against 108 people, including HDP former co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, the ... HDP’s current co-chair Pervin Buldan, several current and former HDP deputies and mayors, and many ...

14. Asia-Pacific left condemns Turkey’s move to ban HDP

    Party (HDP) Left parties from the Asia-Pacific region have spoken out in solidarity with the Peoples’ ... Democratic Party (HDP), the third largest party in the Turkish parliament, now in the process of being banned ... a statement on March 19, strongly condemning the ban proceedings against the HDP. “The threat of banning HDP ...

15. Video: �鶹��ý Party campaigns for real democratic change in Turkish general election

    Turkey 1380 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan World The progressive and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP ... constituent parties of the HDP when it was formed in 2012. �鶹��ý  spoke to Kenan Bircan, the Sydney ... the Kurds. The HDP is telling this truth, he said, which is why the government has arrested and jailed ...

16. Turkey: Crackdown on HDP escalates with 82 new arrests

    (HDP) Arrest warrants were issued for 82 people in Turkey on September 25. The arrests targeted members ... and leaders of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) ‒ the third largest party in Turkey. According ... to a statement released by the HDP, "many of those [targeted for arrest] have been detained on ...

17. Animated film 'Comrades of Jîna Amini' to screen at Love, Art and Revolution Film Festival

    Democratic Party (HDP) — the third largest party in the outgoing parliament — will contest the elections. The ... HDP has been forced to take part in this election through the YSP because of relentless repression by ... the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regime. HDP members, leaders, parliamentarians, mayors and other local ...

18. Turkey: Another left-wing MP arrested

    (HDP) Turkey's war on Kurdistan Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Semra Güzel, a 38-year-old ... — the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Thirteen HDP MPs have already lost their parliamentary seats ... did not see each other for five years until they met up when the HDP made ...

19. Turkey: Tens of thousands attend HDP congress

    Middle East Alex Bainbridge Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Ankara More than 20,000 people ... attended the fourth congress of the left-wing People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey on February 23. ... than 5000 HDP members, including elected mayors and parliamentarians. Participants at the congress had ...

20. Turkish state weaponises earthquake disaster against Kurds

    Party (HDP), the third largest party in the Turkish parliament, reported that its grassroots earthquake ... HDP’s co-spokespersons for foreign affairs, Erdoğan’s government is now “using emergency rule powers to ... and private citizens have mobilised to help earthquake victims in the ten affected provinces. “The HDP ...

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