Turkey’s Kurdistan (Bakur) Tahir Elçi, the President of the Diyarbakir Bar Association, and a prominent pro-Kurdish human rights lawyer, has been shot dead in …
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Turkey’s Kurdistan (Bakur) The co-chair of the pro-Kurdish People’s’ Democracy Party (HDP) was targeted by an assassination attempt while travelling in his official car …
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Turkey’s Kurdistan (Bakur) On the ninth day of the siege and curfew in #Silvan, a military operation has been launched on the city …
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Nov 9, 2015 Turkey (Bakur) The Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) has called an end to the month-old ceasefire in Turkey on Thursday. The …
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Turkey’s Kurdistan (Bakur) In Sunday’s election, preliminary results suggested HDP managed to maintain the 10 percent it needed to remain in parliament. But the …
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Turkey’s Kurdistan (Bakur) HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş confirms that “We received intelligence from reliable sources that there were plans to plot an assassination against …
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Turkey (Bakur or Northern Kurdistan) The pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) officially launched its election campaign on Friday in Ankara. The November 1st election …
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Turkey’s Kurdistan (Bakur) Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has imposed a ban on the broadcast of the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP Party) …
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Kurdish Region of Turkey (Bakur or Northern) [gap height=”25″] The Turkish Radio and Television Council (RTÜK) has suspended the broadcast of around 40 channels …
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Iraqi Kurdistan(Bashur) The United States announced plans to train 9,000 new Peshmerga soldiers in Iraqi Kurdistan. Over 5,000 new recruits have been signed …