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Turkey crackdown on HDP
Erdoğan reacts to HDP: Their place is the Qandil Mountains
Turkish President and Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reacted pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members who did not...
Demirtaş says HDP members kept in jail for early elections
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) jailed Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş has said HDP deputies are being kept in prison as part of a government strategy...
Demirtaş: Referendum results would be different if we weren’t in prison
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been jailed since November 2016, has said the results of a recent referendum in...
HDP’s Tan receives two-year suspended sentence
Altan Tan, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a suspended sentence of 24 months for “inciting hatred...
HDP starts sit-in at Constitutional Court
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies have started a sit-in at the Constitutional Court building in Ankara protesting the arrest of its deputies, the...
Jailed HDP deputy Encü given 55-month prison sentence on terror charges
Ferhat Encü, one of 11 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a prison sentence of 55 months,...
[UPDATE] HDP deputy Konca arrested shortly after release from prison
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca, who was released by a Batman court on May 3 after spending five months in...
EP’s Pittella calls on Erdoğan to release all political prisoners immediately
President of the European Parliament’s Socialists & Democrats Group Gianni Pittella on Friday said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is closing the door to...
CSOs concerned about de facto closure of HDP
Civil society organizations have expressed concern about the de facto closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Cumhuriyet reported on Friday.According to the report,...