Category: BDP
Posted on November 26, 2012 by Naila Bozo
“Sovereignty does not allow any leader or any regime to repress its own people or kill innocent civilians. A regime pointing guns to its own people can have no sovereignty or legitimacy.” This is an example of a statement that …
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Posted on September 30, 2012 by Jeff Gibbs
On Monday, October 1st, as Turkey writes its new constitution, a trial will resume at Silivri L Type Prison just outside of Istanbul that could well determine the country’s future. Will it be rule of law under an impartial justice …
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Posted on September 29, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The Peace in Kurdistan Campaign held on September 18th a public meeting in London about the KCK trials in Turkey and had invited a number of speakers who had observed the hearings during the summer. The people arrested in the …
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Posted on August 29, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On Sunday Kurdish residents of Cizre, Şırnak Province of Turkey gathered by the thousands to participate in a protest organized by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). The mayor of Cizre, Mustafa Gören, was also in attendance, and a general strike …
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Posted on July 14, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey, and were met with brutality by Turkish police forces earlier today. The Turkish government constantly extends its support towards Syrian protesters and the Syrian uprising …
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Posted on May 24, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Leyla Zana, a prominent Kurdish politician and the first Kurdish woman to win a seat in Turkish parliament, has been sentenced by the Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court to 10 years in prison. The charges are in response to “nine …
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Leyla Zana,
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Posted on March 27, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
BDP offices were raided last week in Cizre, dozens were beaten and injured. This footage highlights Turkish police’s brutality towards Kurdish people. Executives and activists from BDP office in Cizre were dragged on the floor, repeatedly punched and kicked by …
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Posted on March 11, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Kurdish women were restricted from a social celebratory gathering in Akdeniz district of Mersin Saturday. The Square where the celebration was supposed to take place was sealed off by riot police despite pleas from Aynur Asan, BDP’s co-chair in Mersin, …
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