HDP Europe

The Economy Commission of the HDP has presented the “Poverty Report”. The report was presented in a press conference at the Parliament, joined by HDP Diyarbakır MP and HDP deputy co-chair responsible for the commission Garo Paylan and HDP MPs Erol Katırcıoğlu, Necdet İpekyüz and Serpil Kemalbay. The commission’s report revealed that 60 percent of […]

Press statement by our co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar: The application made by the lawyers of our former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş to the ECHR Grand Chamber has reached a conclusion today. With its decision, the Grand Chamber has confirmed the previous ECtHR judgement, which ruled that Demirtaş should be released immediately. The Chamber has […]

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Board issued a statement to reject the “hostile sentence against DTK co-chair Leyla Güven.  Leyla Güven was sentenced on Monday to 22 years and 6 months in prison. The HDP said in its statement: “The sentence of 22 years and 6 months in prison in the legal case in […]

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has ordered the immediate release of former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş on Tuesday. Finding several violations of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case of the detention of the Kurdish politician, the Court ruled that Turkey is unlawfully jailing Demirtaş and called on […]

News of arrests of HDP members are coming on a daily basis. The Turkish regime keeps threatening the democratic opposition party with a ban. HDP Adana MP Tülay Hatimoğulları Oruç, talked to ANF about the current developments in the country and the geopolitical situation of Turkey. “The peoples pay the price of war politics” Hatimoğulları […]

Our Parliamentary Group Deputies made a statement on the reason they have refused to sign the joint parliamentary declaration on US sanctions: Statement: As the HDP, we took a stance against Turkey’s S-400 missile agreement with Russia from the first day on. We also stated that the AKP government’s inconsistent approach, which reduces diplomacy and […]

Pervin Buldan, co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), commented on the demand of the extreme right-wing ultra-nationalist Devlet Bahçeli (MHP) to ban her party: “Nobody has the power to close the HDP.” MHP chairman Devlet Bahçeli described the HDP as a “structure of hatred and betrayal” that is hidden behind democracy, freedom and human […]

Ebru Günay has accused the heads of state and government of the EU hypocrisy in dealing with Turkey. Instead of sanctions, Europe just watch “with concern” how human rights are trampled on. Despite the government’s persistently confrontational policies in Ankara, Turkey has been spared sanctions by the EU. Instead of an EU arms embargo or […]

by Fayik Yağızay. Although it might appear that international institutions and global powers act according to principles, values, standards and conventions, we can see that their actions are based simply on their own interests. Almost every day, we witness how principles and values are trampled upon in the face of these interests. We see that […]

The Europe Turkey civic commission has adressed a letter to the president of the European Council Mr. Charles Michel Dear Mr. President, The EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) welcomes the increasingly critical attitude of the international community towards Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP-MHP government. The chorus of criticism, demands, and recommendations regarding […]