Demirtas
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Demirtas to challenge Erdogan's presidential candidacy with election authority
Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not legally eligible to run in the upcoming presidential election and that he will challenge his candidacy with the country’s election authority.
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Turkish court orders temporary freeze of Kurdish party funds
Turkey’s highest court on Thursday ordered a temporary freeze on the funds of the country’s pro-Kurdish party as it mulls whether to disband it over accusations of links to Kurdish militants.
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Expert sheds light on Erdogan's internal and external challenges and the future of the Kurds
In an interview with Kurdpress, James Carey, an expert on Turkey affairs, spoke about the external and internal challenges of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the upcoming elections in 2023 and his specific actions to address them, including the opposition's efforts to oust him, the future of Turkey Kurds, many other issues in Turkey and the war in Ukraine as well as the unprecedented confrontation between the West and Russia after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.
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Peaceful transition ‘doubtful’ if Turkey opposition wins in 2023: Ahmet Turk
There are “serious doubts” regarding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan allowing peaceful transition of power if he loses the elections scheduled for 2023, Kurdish politician Ahmet Turk told Independent Turkish on Saturday.
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Demirtas calls on intelligentsia to unite to help build full democracy in Turkey
Jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, a former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has called on Turkey’s writers, artists, academics and journalists to unite and help establish full democracy in the country by taking “an active stance” for it in the period towards June 2023 elections, local media reported on Thursday, May 12.
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HDP says Turkish politics can never eliminate Kurdish presence
The government will not be able to purge the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) from Turkish politics, the party’s co-chair Pervin Buldan said on Sunday, as she dismissed the closure case against the group.
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Demirtas urges opposition to call on AKP to resign over lira crisis
Imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas has urged Turkey’s opposition leaders to jointly call on the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to resign over the recent plunge of the lira to historic lows, local media reported on Wednesday, citing a tweet shared from his account.
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Turkey puts 18 journalists on trial in a single week
In the past week alone, 18 journalists, most of whom work for Kurdish media outlets, were put on trial in Turkey, Voice of America News reported on Friday.
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Turkey may release Selahattin Demirtas on November 3
Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas may be released on parole by the court on November 3, Turkish officials said in the action plan they submitted to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
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US senators urge Biden to hold Erdogan accountable for crackdown on HDP
Ten U.S. senators penned an open letter to President Joe Biden on September 30 asking him to “forcefully condemn” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his government's crackdown on the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
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HDP aspires to solve ‘Kurdish problem’ in parliament: Demirtas
Jailed former co-chair of Turkey pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas has said the party aspires to solve Turkey’s so-called Kurdish problem and is an interlocutor for negotiations to do it, pointing to the Turkish Parliament as the place for the talks, local media reported on Tuesday.
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CHP leader says Turkey Kurdish problem should be solved through HDP
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party on Sunday said the solution to Turkey’s decades-long Kurdish problem laid with the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which is facing closure over alleged terror links.
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Demirtas says southeast Turkey wildfires deliberately set to target region
The jailed former chair of Turkey pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtas said on Monday the raging wildfires in southeastern Tunceli province were deliberately set as part of an ongoing “policy’’ targeting the region’s Kurdish population.
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Kurdish family Lawyer in Konya receiving death threats
Abdurrahman Karabulut, the lawyer for a Kurdish family, seven of whose members were murdered in the central Turkish province of Konya last Friday, has said he has been receiving death threats for representing the family, the JinNews news agency reported on Tuesday.