HDP deputy prevented from speaking Kurdish in Turkey's parliament HDP deputy Ayşe Sürücü was prevented from speaking Kurdish in Turkey's parliament. "My mother tongue is Kurdish. Why can't you tolerate Kurdish here?" Sürücü asked. [...]

Erdoğan: ‘We do not recognise the decisions of the EU in the Kavala and Demirtaş cases’ Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said the decisions of the CoE Committee of Ministers regarding the implementation of [...]

Sinjar Autonomous Administration condemns drone attacks, blames KDP for complicity The Turkish drone strike that killed the co-chair of the autonomous administration in the Yazidi town of Sinjar has been condemned by local parties, [...]

World-wide solidarity actions to take place on 11 December for ‘freedom for Abdullah Öcalan’ The European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress has appealed to human rights defenders to launch worldwide solidarity demonstrations on 11 December. [...]

Iraqi Kurdistan: Turkish drone strike kills Sinjar official while his children survive attack Turkey's drone strike in Sinjar today reportedly killed Merwan Bedel Xwededa, the co-chair of Sinjar's Autonomous Administration, in a vehicle while [...]