Published by Komnews on February 27, 2017 The Eurasia Survey Centre has released the results of a new poll it conducted on the upcoming constitutional reform referendum. According to the poll, 56% of the people it surveyed were against the new constitution proposed by...
Below is the list of democratically elected co-mayors from the Kurdish region imprisoned by the Turkish regime. Added to this is the list of municipalities led by the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), regional sister party to the HDP, which were taken over...
The ongoing unlawful state practices against the HDP have gained a new character with three coordinated and synchronized “legal” decisions on the same day. On 21 February 2017, HDP’s co-chair Ms Figen Yüksekdağ’s parliament membership was revoked, co-chair Mr...
The revocation of HDP Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ’s membership in parliament as a fait accompli is unacceptable. The revoking of her position in parliament once again tramples the constitution, and it is an effort to give the government’s political decision the...
By: Nurcan Baysal. This article was published on Open Democracy on 2 February 2017. The July 15 coup attempt was a nightmare. Kurds remember the terrible army coups in Turkey’s past. After the coups, Kurdish people were jailed, killed and tortured. Kurds are against...
21 February is International Mother Language Day, a day that promotes ‘preservation and protection of all languages used by people of the world’. While an estimated 50 million people in the world speak different variations of Kurdish, these languages are often...
