The people's support of current Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the general elections, which will be held on June 24, increased by 1% this week, according to the survey carried out by the polling firm Gezici. …
Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed co-chair of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), will start a hunger strike on March 31 to protest 'inhumane treatment', along with jailed HDP deputy Abdullah Zeydan. …
Turkish authorities removed an Assyrian sculpture from a public square on January 8. The sculpture, an Assyrian winged bull known as a Lamassu, was in front of the local council building in Diyarbakir. No explanation has been provided by the …
Police on Dec. 23 detained Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP and deputy parliamentary speaker Pervin Buldan in Istanbul, the party announced in its Twitter account. Buldan was detained at her residence in Istanbul in …
There is an attempt to undermine Turkey at the moment by shaking it from all sides
Police have detained a missing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy in the eastern province of Hakkari, the Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said. “Three deputies had been fugitives. One of them, …
The European Union is "extremely worried" by Turkey's arrest of Kurdish opposition lawmakers and has called a meeting of EU national envoys in Ankara, the bloc's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini tweeted on Friday. …
Turkey detained two co-leaders and ten other lawmakers of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) early on Friday over reluctance to give …
Deputy co-chair of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Alp Altinors, has been detained in Turkey. Altinors has been detained on charges of conducting propaganda in favor of the Kurdistan Workers' …
The Turkish parliament will begin to debate the draft law on depriving MPs of the parliamentary immunity, The Guardian reports. A push by the Turkish government to strip parliamentarians of their immunity is a clear attempt by the …
The head of the Turkish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas, may be deprived of his parliamentary immunity. Turkey’s Justice Ministry appealed to the parliament for depriving …
Leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party, Selahatdin Demirtash's car was attacked in southeastern Turkey. The rear window of Demirtas's bullet-proof car was hit in the city of Diyarbakir on …
