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Cihan Erdal is back home in Ottawa after two years of detention in Turkey, where he was accused of inciting anti-government protests.

Erkan's Field Diary Primary Menu One brave MEP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu (@gergerliogluof ) is being expelled from the Parliament today… #GergerlioğluYalnızDeğildir By admin 3 days ago Opposition member of parliament, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) speaking in parliament, May 2, 2019. © 2019 TBMM.   Human Rights Watch – Mar 16, 8:13 AM (Istanbul) – Any move by Turkey’s parliament to use an opposition politician’s wrongful conviction for...

URL copied to clipboard In October 2014, protesters in dozens of cities and towns throughout Turkey came together to pressure the government into providing assistance to the mostly Kurdish inhabitants of Kobanî, a Syrian town directly adjacent to the Turkish border that was then under heavy siege by Islamic State forces. Police and demonstrators clashed violently and repeatedly during these protests. Among those supporting the protests were members of opposition political parties such as the Peoples’ Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi, or “HDP”). Six years later, on 25...

Article content A Carleton University PhD student arrested while visiting Turkey last year will stand trial in April on charges stemming from protests in Turkey in 2014, his common-law partner says. Cihan Erdal, 32, was detained on Sept. 25, 2020 along with 16 others, after Turkish officials accused the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey — in which Erdal was once a high-ranking member — of urging people to take part in protests across Turkey in 2014 that left 37 people dead. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Carleton student Cihan E...

The arrests led to on-campus demonstrations this week © Resist Bogazici/Twitter Turkish authorities have arrested five students over an LGBTQ-themed art work displayed at a protest exhibition at Istanbul’s Bogazici University. The work depicted a mythical half-woman half-snake creature from Turkish folklore (known as a Shahmaran) at the centre of Islam’s holiest site in Mecca, the Kaaba. The anonymous work was submitted via an open-call run by the student art collective BOUN Sanat Direnisi. The group said in a social media post that they timed the exhibition to c...