Turkish police raided the DEM Party's provincial organisation in Iğdır in the morning and detained eight people, including Mehmet Selçuk, the provincial co-chair.   The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Provincial Organisation building was subjected to a police attack in the morning. During the course of the raid, special operations police officers blocked all streets and avenues leading [...]

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party has called for a major protest in Diyarbakır (Amed) on 13 October, urging an end to Turkish President Erdoğan’s war policies and the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları highlighted the importance of the rally for peace and equality. Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party is set to lead [...]

Massimo D'Alema, who was the Prime Minister of Italy during the conspiracy against Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, confessed that the then US President Bill Clinton called him and asked him to extradite Öcalan to Turkey. No news has been received for 43 months from Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held in İmralı Island Prison under severe isolation [...]

‘Youth and trade unions in Catalonia called for freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan at various events.   In Barcelona, Catalonia, a seminar entitled ‘Peoples’ self-determination and language' was organised at the CIEMEN centre, which coordinates institutions working for the integration and empowerment of migrants. Speakers from the Amazigh, Roma, Catalan and Kurdistan peoples took part in the seminar, [...]

TEV-DEM said, “The solution is in İmralı. We call for breaking the isolation of the leader and guaranteeing his physical freedom.” The Democratic Society Movement (TEV-DEM) made a written statement on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the 9 October Conspiracy against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The statement emphasised that after the international conspiracy that started on 9 [...]