Former deputy mayor of Viranşehir, Kemal Kodin, has been arrested on the grounds of writing "Şaredarîya Wêranşerê" on cars of Viranşehir Municipality. Viranşehir Criminal Court of First Instance sued deputy mayor in 2010 on the grounds of opposing the act on alphabet, considering that there was no letter “W” in the Turkish alphabet. Kodin was arrested last Thursday and sent to Akçakale Prison for he didn't ...

In a statement released on Monday, People's Defense Forces Press Office HPG-BIM said that the Turkish army launched an operation in the areas of Rojnek and Zel in Dersim on Sunday. HPG-BIM stated that Turkish army is also making military and ammunition supplement in the Martyr Şiyar region in Hakkari's Oramar town. The statement noted that Turkish army had bombed the Martyr Rahime region in Oramar at evenin ...

Speaking to Etkin News Agency (ETHA) about recent developments in the ongoing process for a solution to the Kurdish question, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said the establishment of the Parliamentary Monitor Commission and the commission of wise people were important advancement in the ongoing process. Demirtaş said the commissions however didn't meet the demand they highlight ...

Speaking to Nuçe TV following the visit to Abdullah Öcalan in Imralı prison on Sunday, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) group deputy chair Pervin Buldan said the Kurdish leader called on students at Dicle University to display sensitivity and to avoid responding to provocations. According to Buldan, the Kurdish leader said conflicts and provocations like that recently lived at Dicle University in Diyarbakır ...

In a press conference following their visit to Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan on Sunday, BDP deputies Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan said that Öcalan would send a letter to the people of Turkey in the next few days. Speaking at the meeting, held at BDP Istanbul office, Istanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder conveyed the Kurdish leader's short statement. The statemen reads: “Dear esteemed people of Turke ...

A BDP delegation is in İmralı for a new meeting with Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, it was disclosed early in the day. It is understood the delegation will hold a press meeting after the visit at around 6pm Turkish time. BDP deputies Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Pervin Buldan are part of the delegation, as they had been in the previous occasion. They will probably discuss about the response letter to Öcalan' se ...

Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris, and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement, were killed three months ago but there is still a strange silence in France about this murder. The assassination took place in the Kurdistan Information Office in the French capital Paris on 10 January 2013 ...

Two distinguished lawyers, former president of the Turkish Human Rights Association (HRA) Ms Reyhan Yalcindag, and renowned defence lawyer Mr Ercan Kanar, as well as Prof Nazan Ustundag, of Boğaziçi University, will be visiting London to take part in this panel discussion. Following their participation in a conference at Queens University Belfast on the Kurdish question in Turkey, we are pleased to invite t ...

Next week co-chairs of DTK (Democratic Society Congress) and deputies Ahmet Türk and Aysel Tuğluk, will be in Strasbourg to follow the debate and vote of the “2012 Progress Report on Turkey (EU Enlargment)” at the European Parliament. The report will be discussed on Wednesday 17 in the afternoon and voted on Thursday around midday. Deputies Türk and Tügluk will meet representatives of the EU institutions, i ...

Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-chair Salih Muslim said their party would join the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, the main component of Syrian opposition, if they received an offer from the Coalition. We believe the Syrian opposition will not be able to do it without Kurds. They shall definitively make an effort to involve Kurds who are represented by the Kurdish High Coun ...