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  1. Turkey: Erdoğan’s war on women

    Feminism Dilar Dirik Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Peoples Democratic Party “We ... Kurdish politicians from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the regional Democratic Regions Party ... HDP is the only progressive oppositional party left in Turkey with its secular, diverse, pro-minority, ...

  2. Turkey: Hunger strikers inspire hope, defy authoritarian regime

    Democratic Party (HDP) Hunger strikes The mood in Turkey is low, and not just among those who oppose ... (HDP), which is a broad alliance of left and Kurdish political organisations. The government arrested 11 ...

  3. Turkey: Crackdown intensifies against media and opposition

    Party (HDP) The crackdown by the Turkish regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan against the democratic ... targeted the left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), with 55 out of 58 HDP MPs facing terrorism charges. ... On November 2, HDP co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ had a 10 month prison sentence confirmed for attending ...

  4. Turkey: ErdoÄŸan deepens ethnic cleansing of Kurds

    left-wing, pro-Kurdish autonomy Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Kurdish gains in Rojava in ... to the parliamentary immunity of MPs. This measure is expected to lead to the prosecution of HDP ... lawmakers. Just five days after the bill became law, a public prosecutor demanded two life sentences for HDP ...

  5. The lies that keep the PKK on terror list

    rebuff in the June 7 elections by the left-wing Kurdish-based People’s Democratic Party (HDP), this has ... come around, it is by no means impossible that top HDP leaders may be in jail and the party banned. And ... comments of Ertugrul Kürkçü, then co­leader of the HDP: “Do you want children — who passed to the other ...

  6. Turkey's war on Rojava

    US plans in Iraq and Syria. The People’s Democracy Party (HDP), which gained significant support at ... fight. HDP MPs have visited the Syrian border to show their solidarity with Kobane resistance and now ... Twitter. Syria Turkey Kurdistan September 26, 2014 1027 The People’s Democracy Party (HDP) leader ...

  7. Turkey: Erdoğan's plan for the Kurds – destroy, rebuild, pacify

    and, most of all, against the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP). This is a consequence ... of his party's crucial setback in the June 7 general elections where the HDP's soaring ... However, in 2013 the construction works were stopped by local oppositional forces, mainly HDP ...

  8. Turkey: After failed coup, ErdoÄŸan cracks down

    Democracy Tony Iltis Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) ... frustrated last year by the success of the left-wing Kurdish-led People's Democratic Party (HDP) in ... civil society. The purge deepened pre-existing moves by ErdoÄŸan to control these institutions. The HDP ...

  9. Attacks on Kurds reveal Turkey's Western-backed terror hypocrisy

    Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) ... the Turkish government is proposing setting up a buffer zone. HDP under attack Turkish President Recep ... Democratic Party (HDP). The HDP is a Kurdish-led party that brought together a coalition of ethnic and ...

  10. European Left calls for solidarity with Turkey's Kurdish victims

    Democratic Party (HDP) Peoples Democratic Party The European Left Parties Solidarity With Kurdish People ... the People's Democratic Party (HDP), Democratic Society Congress (DTK), the Party of Democratic ...

  11. Behind Turkey's war on the Kurds

    Iltis Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan ... the Kurdish-led left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), which did well in both of last year's ... thwarted by an unprecedented strong showing by the HDP, which won more than 13% and drew together the ...

  12. Rojava revolutionaries show how to fight 'Islamic State'

    (HDP) Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL) Kobane Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's ... of the Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). The HDP is a Kurdish-based left-wing party that united ... society activists in a rainbow coalition. The HDP campaigned in solidarity with the anti-IS resistance in ...

  13. Kurdish revolutionary: 'We are showing the strength of women'

    National liberation Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Rojava People's Defense Units (YPG) ... relations. Can the success of the People's Democratic Party (HDP, a Kurdish0-led left-wing party) in ... the Turkish parliament. The success of the HDP could encourage a common policy among Kurds. We hope it ...

  14. Why the ban on the PKK is wrong

    Workers' Party (PKK) Abdullah Öcalan Renas Lelikan Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Since late 2005 the ... wing includes the PKK and the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey, the Democratic Union ...

  15. Feminists call for solidarity against Turkish war crimes

    Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Justice and Development Party Peoples Democratic Party Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan ... the arrests of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) administrators, ...

  16. Turkey: Erdogan manoeuvres to retain power after election shock

    Party (HDP) smashed the undemocratic 10% threshold, achieving 13.1% (6.1 million votes) and 80 deputies ... in the 550-seat Grand National Assembly. While the HDP’s core support lies in the oppressed Kurdish ... impossible due to the MHP’s extreme anti-Kurd stance. It refuses to even talk to the HDP, let alone be in ...

  17. Turkey: Kurdish movement ‘will stop Erdoğan imposing fascism’

    (MHP), the arrest of MPs from the left-wing, Kurdish–led people’s Democratic party (HDP ... sweeping through Turkey and that the arrest of HDP MPs was the latest proof. “[Turkish President Recep ... MPs and members, blockading HDP headquarters, seizing municipalities in Kurdistan by appointing ...

  18. Kurdistan: Hunger strike for Abdullah Öcalan begins

    Party (DBP) headquarters. “Representatives from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), DBP, Peoples' ... savage attacks on Kurdish areas. The HDP and other Kurdish parties have been calling for a meeting with ...

  19. Turkey: Huge march to break siege as regime escalates attacks

    death. Meanwhile, calls were made by People's Democratic Party (HDP) officials for people to ... continue marching despite police attacks. HDP co-president Selahattin Demirtas said: “Our people must be ...

  20. Turkey: Kurdish activists tortured

    psychological warfare against the Kurdish population. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul MP Filiz ...

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