18 members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu calling for an end to the 87 days long siege in Amed’s central Sur district. MEPS called for urgent action to avoid another Cizre case in Sur. The 18 parliamentarians had been on a visit to Amed city last […]
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URGENT ACTION CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Diyarbakir, February 24, 2016 I am a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the province of Diyarbakir and am writing this letter to you from the central district of Sur currently under heavy bombardment of the Turkish armed forces. For the past six months, since August 2015, six indefinite round-the-clock curfews have […]
Urgent Call of the HDP for Sur
Don’t let tomorrow be too late for Sur.. The indefinite, round-the-clock curfews that the AKP government has declared in Turkey’s Kurdish provinces since August 16, 2015 continue to deepen the emergency situation that undermines basic human rights and freedoms in the region, including the right to live and personal safety. As of today, curfews have […]
HDP's delegation – Meeting with Alexis Tsipras
A delegation led by the People’s Democratic Party co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and the representative of the HDP in Europe Eyyup Doru met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as part of a fraternal meeting in Athens today. The issues of refugees and immigration in general, the struggle of the Kurdish people in the Middle East […]
Letter of the Co-presidents of the HDP
To the President of European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk To the President of European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker To the Chancellor of Germany, Mrs. Angela Merkel, We have been closely following how war and conflicts taking place both in Middle East and Turkey affect Europe directly. The humanitarian devastation caused by war and tragedies […]
HDP issues urgent call for action by international organizations
The Peoples’ Democratic Party has written a letter calling upon international humanitarian organizations and public opinion to take urgent and effective initiatives for the ending of the state of siege and onslaught in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The letter by Hişyar Özsoy, Vice Co-chair in Charge of Foreign Affairs of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and […]
UN High Commissioner urges Turkey to respect fundamental rights
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein urged the Turkish authorities on Monday to respect the fundamental rights of civilians in its security operations and to promptly investigate the alleged shooting of a group of unarmed people in the south-eastern town of Cizre, after shocking video footage of the event emerged last […]
HDP'S statement on Cizre
January 30, 2016 To the press and public opinion, For the last nine days, we have been making every effort to have our dead and seriously wounded citizens who are trapped in the basement of an apartment building in Cizre—among them many dead and seriously wounded—transferred to hospital. Our efforts to clear what that […]
Selahattin Demirtas met Elmar Brok at the European parliament
Selahattin Demirtas, co-president of the HDP and Eyyup Doru, representative of the HDP in Europe met Elmar Brok, German member of the European Parliament for the European People’s Party and current Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and President of the Union of the European Federalists (UEF) at the EP this morning. […]
Civilian deaths in sieges imposed by the security forces
The first of these sieges, described as “curfews,” was imposed in Varto, starting on 16 August. There are sieges still in course in Cizre, Silopi and Sur districts. “Curfews” have been declared 56 times in 20 districts of 7 cities and so far these curfews have totaled 307 days. In some districts where curfews have […]
S&Ds Press release – Call on Turkey to return to Kurdish peace process
During the European Parliament debate on the situation in the south-east of Turkey, MEPs from the Socialists and Democrats Group called on Turkey to return to the Kurdish peace process. The S&D Group stated it will also visit the region in February. Kati Piri, S&D MEP and European Parliament rapporteur on Turkey, said: “The […]
HDP Delegation – Visit United Nations officials
A HDP delegation visited the Nations Unions headquarters in Geneva today to denounce the genocidal policies of the Turkish state. Nazmi Gür, co-vice president and head of external relations of the People’s Democratic Party and Meral Danis Bestas, HDP’s MP for the city of Adana came to the United Nations Headquarters where they met several […]
Co-mayors of Amed, Mardin and Van met EP and EU officials
A delegation of the People’s Democratic Party Co-mayors of Amed Mardin and Van Metropolitan Municipalities have had a series of talks with officials from the European Parliament, European Union and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. The meetings in Strasbourg was focused on the Turkish state terror in Kurdistan and the humanitarian […]
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) alarmed by escalating violence in south-east Turkey
Ingebjørg Godskesen (Norway, EC) and Nataša Vuckovic (Serbia, SOC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for post-monitoring dialogue with Turkey, reacting to yesterday’s attack on the police headquarters in Çinar (Diyarbakir) that left six people dead, including three children, and 39 wounded, have made the following statement: “This is a […]
Kurdish Friendship group of the EP – Statement over the agressions towards kurdish civil population
Brussels, January 13, 2016 The crackdown against the Kurdish people must stop Call of the EP-Kurdish Friendship Group For a month now, the Turkish army has been running jointly with the special police forces an operation of unprecedented violence against the towns located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. 10,000 men supported by tanks […]
Delegation of the HDP – European Parliament
The GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament today hosted a delegation from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) – Mr. Osman Baydemir, HDP Deputy for Şanlıurfa, and Ms Feleknas Uca, HDP Deputy for Diyarbakır, former GUE/NGL MEP – for an exchange of views on the dramatic situation of the Kurds in southeast Turkey, who are being […]
EP – Press conference on the ongoing onslaught in the kurdish region of Turkey
GUE/NGL President Gabi Zimmer has host a press conference called “The Escalating State of Violence in Turkey: Kurdish People under Attack”on Tuesday 12 January 2016 at 10 am. The press conference was be held in the Anna Politkovskaya Press Room, PHS 0A50, European Parliament, Brussels, with guest speakers Mr. Osman Baydemir, HDP Deputy for Şanlıurfa, Member […]
HDP Europe – Urgent call to members of national parliaments, human rights defenders and international media members
Dear members of the press, Dear members of parliaments, The curfews in the Kurdish region of Turkey which has been going on for more than 4 months now, has gradually intensified over time and rendered daily life impossible. So far, 145 zones in 16 different cities have been declared as ‘special military security zone’ which […]
Gabi Zimmer – EU must condemn Turkey’s offensive against the Kurds
Gabi Zimmer, chair of the GUE/NGL group in the European Parliament, comments on the military offensive against the Kurdish people in southeast Turkey: “In the wake of the dirty deals agreed with the Turkish government on refugee policy, the European Union (EU) and its member states have passively accepted Erdoğan’s war against the Kurdish […]
Dutch Socialist Party – Statement on the ongoing violence in the kurdish towns of Turkey
The Hague, December 30th, 2015 Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Socialist Party in the Dutch States General and the European Parliament, we would like to express our deep concern regarding the recent violence in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Please accept our condolences with the casualties that you have suffered. The use of […]