HDP Europe

Dear President Robert Spano, I have learned through the news media of your upcoming visit to Turkey on 3-4 September 2020 with the agenda of receiving an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University on September 3rd and teaching a class at the Turkish Academy of Justice in Ankara on September 4th. As has been frequently noted […]

Cornered in all domestic and foreign political matters, unable to manage the economic and social crises, and experiencing a deadlock due to the coronavirus, the AKP-MHP ruling bloc has once again put to misuse historical and cultural assets as a political tool for a way out. Having tried to influence pious people during electoral campaigns […]

In an open letter to Josep Borrel members of the European Parliament called for concrete steps, as economic and targeted sanctions, to help end Turkey’s unlawful repression and attacks: Mr Borrell,We are writing to draw your attention to the repression of democratic political opposition in Turkey, especially the detention of MPs and Mayors from the […]

In a political climate where any criticism of the government is equated with terrorism, incessant detentions and arrests have become routinized means of intimidating the democratic society and politics in Turkey. As the stronghold of the HDP and political center of Kurdish region in Turkey, Diyarbakir is the city that is most targeted by government […]

While the Turkish government has been using repressive and militaristic means to suppress any political debate on the Kurdish issue at home since the end of the peace process with the Kurdish movement in 2015, the Turkish army has been carrying out cross-border operations also in Syria and Iraq, killing many Kurdish civilians. Such operations […]

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has presented its highly anticipated roadmap with strategic guidelines against the authoritarian-autocratic state led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The individual steps of this roadmap are summarized in a nine-point plan, which was presented by co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar in Istanbul. In the roadmap, the HDP advocates a democratic start […]

Statement by EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano issued a statement regarding the latest crackdown on our co-mayors. The statement reads: Decisions and actions taken by the Turkish authorities against municipalities with mayors from opposition parties remain of deep concern, in particular when they appear to be politically motivated. This is […]

On 20 November, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Headquarters in Ankara released a 35-page long report called “The Trustee Regime in Turkey”. We, the HDP Representation office in Europe, provide this short summary. Key findings are that The trustee regime is ultimately a tool of opposition repression by the Turkish government. The practice is a de facto continuation of the state of emergency […]

The Party of European Socialists (PES) said they are concerned by reports that Turkish authorities have detained our elected mayors: In yet another attack on democracy by President Erdogan, the mayors – Yaşar Akkuş of Idgir, Berivan Helen Işık of Siirt, Ramazan Sarsılmaz of Baykan and Bara Akgül of Kurtalan, Casim Budak of Muş-Altınova– were […]

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