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THE co-chair of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) called on the government today to take action to stem a rising tide of femicide, accusing the authorities of being “responsible for the massacres of women.” Pervin Buldan was speaking at a meeting of the party’s parliamentary women’s group a day after the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had dismissed the number of murders of women in Turkey as insignificant, claiming that “three times as many men are killed.” “The duty of the government is not to issue condemnation, it is to prevent these murders and to ens...

WOMEN will take to the streets across Turkey on Monday in a firm stand against “patriarchal state violence,” with jailed political leaders calling for international networks of solidarity to be built. Former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yuksekdag sent her “heartfelt and passionate greetings and love” to all of those protesting against war, discrimination and violence. Ms Yuksekdag, founder of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), has been in jail since November 2016 and faces the rest of her life behind bars on trumped-up terrorism charges. She is seen as ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday announced an 11-point human rights action plan, pledging to fortify freedoms and legal protections after years of democratic backsliding under his government.

Necibe Ciftci’s underage son was abducted, elder son executed by terror group Ali Murat Alhas   | 25.02.2021 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey With the PKK’s bloody terror campaign continuing to victimize countless lives in Turkey, mothers of those forcibly recruited by the terrorist group launched a sit-in in 2019 to bring back their children. Hundreds have joined the sit-in in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkey, including Necibe Ciftci, a mother who lost two of her sons to the terror group. Ciftci said her son Rojhat was only 17 years old when he was ...

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party faces renewed pressure in Turkey amid rising calls for its closure and recent court decisions that could see one of its lawmakers removed from parliament.