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The Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is planning to hold rallies in favor of "autonomy" and "self-rule" before the end of January, at a time when one of its co-chairs is being investigated over his call for greater Kurdish self-governance.

Several gunmen burst into the home of a newly elected Mexican mayor and shot her dead on Jan. 2, just hours into her tenure, police said.

Gisela Mota, 33, a left-of-center former member of Congress, was gunned down barely 24 hours after taking her oath of office in the city of Temixco, which is about 90 kilometers from the capital Mexico City.

The White House has delayed imposing new financial sanctions on Iran over its ballistic-missile program, The Wall Street Journal reported on Dec. 31. 

Turkey's "annus horribilis" must be over. All around us we see people in deep sorrow and desperation. We have become a nation that could not solve our own problems, let alone be a cure for our neighbors and all others that suffer. A new approach, a clean slate and a radically different perspective is needed.

The "democratic autonomy" statement of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) is apparently a document open to discussion. And apparently, it tries to take the issue from armed contention and bring it to political ground.

The Diyarbak?r Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation against Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekda? over her remarks defending autonomy, a day after the party's other co-chair, Selahattin Demirta?, was notified of a probe against him over crimes against the constitutional order. 

A recent call for self-governance supported the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is "a political assassination attempt" targeting law order and societal peace in Turkey, a senior executive of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said.

A recent call for self-governance supported the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is "a political suicide attempt" targeting law order and societal peace in Turkey, a senior executive of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has said.

A recent call for self-governance supported by their party was a key to a substantial unification of Turkey's peoples, a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has argued, defending self-governance for the entire country, not only for southeastern Anatolia. 

A meeting of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) in Diyarbak?r called for the establishment of a "democratic autonomy."

This is not a demand in a democratic country coming from a segment that has faith in democracy, asking for Western-style autonomy.