Democracy Party

A co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the main target of a government-led provisional change in the constitution that would allow parliament to lift legislative immunities, has vowed to not "voluntarily" comply with any possible legal call for prosecution.

The co-chair of Turkey's Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is set to make an unscheduled trip to Brussels on Aug. 5, his party said, amid reports he will meet representatives of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Selahattin Demirta? of the HDP postponed his scheduled program in Ankara on Aug. 5, daily Hürriyet and AFP reported. 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Turkey guilty in the case of retired commander Levent Bekta?, who complained he had failed to obtain notice of the public prosecutor?s opinion during his criminal proceedings.

Zübeyir Aydar, a leading figure in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) based in Brussels, has claimed that the PKK is neither a separatist nor a nationalist organization, while also stressing that the group fully supports the jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's stance in the ongoing peace process.

Murat Bozlak, a deputy of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a former leader of the now-defunct People's Democracy Party (HADEP), passed away on the night of Jan. 4. He was 62.

For Turkey’s secularist elites, for years Kurds were “mountain Turks.” For decades, they had a condescending attitude toward Kurds and turned a blind eye to their plight and demand to enjoy cultural rights.

The remaining two arrested people in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trial were released July 11 by a Diyarbakır court, as the hearings will continue.

The same court in the southeastern province had released 30 of the 32 arrested suspects in the main case against the KCK, the urban wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

A Diyarbakır court has released 30 of the 32 arrested suspects in the main case against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), the urban wing of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

A Turkish court in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır has released two pro-Kurdish politicians in the trial of Kurdistan Community Union (KCK), an umbrella organization of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

A heavy penal court in Turkish capital Ankara has released non-arrest assurances for dozens of senior figures involved with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The court order applies to key PKK leaders currently living abroad, including Zübeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal, on the condition of their return to Turkey within three months.