Category: BDP
Posted on February 2, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
BDP Chairman Selahattin Demirtaş delivered a passionate speech in London. He addressed the Kurdish community, and highlighted Kurdish grievances. His speech was live-streamed, and tweeted. We were unable to receive a transcript of his speech, but the highlights of it …
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BDP,
Turkey |
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Posted on January 25, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Turkish authorities have reported finding another mass-grave with the remains of 23 people […]
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BDP,
Call to Actions,
Turkey |
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Posted on January 13, 2012 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
32 Pro-Kurdish activists have been arrested in association with KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) in Turkey […]
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BDP,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 24, 2011 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Eyyüp Doru has been arrested in Germany because of an arrest warrant issued on Interpol in 2007. BDP representative in Europe has said to ANF, “Mr. Doru was arrested on 15 December after his car was stopped by police in …
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BDP,
Leyla Zana,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 18, 2011 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
In the past months, hundreds of Kurdish activists and Pro-Kurdish activists have been arrested. Among them, politicians, writers and political thinkers detained on questionable grounds in Turkey. Recent arrests have been made, once again on the grounds that they have ‘hidden’ …
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BDP,
Campaigns,
Censorship,
Kurdistan,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 8, 2011 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Kurdish politician Mahmut Alınak has been arrested on suspicion of being associated or having links with KCK. Last month, he was arrested in Istanbul and later released because it could not be established that he had secret ties with KCK. …
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BDP,
Call to Actions,
Discrimination,
Trials,
Turkey |
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Posted on December 5, 2011 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
In a new wave of arrests, 24 people have been taken to custody today. Among them five BDP executives, association chair Evrim Konak and executives Murat Kur, Deniz Kırbağ and Hıdır Yıldız. Earlier this week, 21 people were taken into …
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Activism,
BDP,
Free speech,
Turkey |
2 Comments
Posted on December 3, 2011 by Ruwayda Mustafah Rabar
Thousands of people turned up to a meeting in Amed, with BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, BDP deputies and Sur Mayor Abdullah Demirbaş, as well as civil society organisations. Security forces in Amed used tear-gas and live ammunition to disperse an open-air …
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BDP,
Turkey |
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