Ahead of the new round of EU-Turkey accession talks that kick off tomorrow, GUE/NGL MEP and Coordinator of the EU-Kurdistan friendship group Jürgen Klute has commented: “After three years of stagnation, the re-opening of EU accession negotiations with...
This is the account of EFJ Observer Ricardo Gutiérrez, who attended the 6th hearing of the KCK “Press Wing” trial in Istanbul, Turkey, on 25 September: Zeynep Kuray smiles, but she is angry. Sitting on the steps of the new courthouse built just...
The party was formed upon the suggestion of the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan“to bring the Kurdish movement and the Turkish left together,” when BDP lawmakers first visited him earlier this year as...
Speaking to ANF about the ‘wall of shame’, mayor of Nusaybin Ayşe Gökkan remarked that the wall is being built at a time when the Kurdish people expect the government to remove wire fences and demine the border region. Calling attention to the refusal...
The three Kurdish politicians, 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 executed in Paris on 9...
Chairman, Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and gentlemen. Twenty years ago the Western Balkans was torn by conflict. Twenty years ago, the European Union established the Copenhagen criteria. Ten years ago, the Thessaloniki Summit gave all countries...
