Reports of police brutality and arrests surge as street protests rage on for a second day across Turkey’s Kurdish-majority cities. According to DEM Party MP Gülcan Kaçmaz Sayyiğit, detainees have made allegations of torture.   Turkish police have made 89 arrests during ongoing protests in several Kurdish-majority cities, sparked by the appointment of an AKP candidate as Mayor of Van [...]

A vehicle was bombed by a Turkish drone in the Yazidi town of Shengal in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). A vehicle was bombed by a Turkish combat drone near the Serdeşt Camp in the main Yazidi settlement area of Shengal (Sinjar) in north-west Iraq on Tuesday. There was initially no information about the aftermath of the attack nor possible casualties. [...]

Three more towns were added to the municipalities won by the DEM Party in the 31 March local elections, and this number increased to 78. According to still not final results, the People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) won 3 more municipalities. Counting also showed that the DEM Party emerged victorious in the towns of Gundikê Melê (Balveren) in [...]

"Despite killings and repression, the DEM Party has managed to win in the Kurdish regions and strengthen its position nationally," said Nikolaj Villumsen of the Red-Green Alliance Party (Enhedslisten) in Denmark.   The defeat of the AKP-MHP government in the 31 March local elections and the victory of the Kurdish people are on the agenda of the world. "Despite intense [...]

The AKP-MHP government usurped at least 12 provincial and district municipalities with military and police votes. The Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) announced yesterday that 46.901 transported voters were identified in 31 centres in Kurdistan. Transported soldiers and policemen were exposed yesterday in Şırnak, Hakkari, Siirt, Kars, Ağrı and Iğdır as they travelled en masse to the polling [...]