Filiz Kerestecioğlu

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has filed an application at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the continued arrest of its co-leaders, Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ.

The People's Democracy Party (HDP) has announced plans to file an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the continued arrest of the party's co-leaders, Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ.

The People's Democracy Party (HDP) has announced plans to file an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the continued detention of the party's co-leaders, Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ.

The Kurdish-issue focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has denied claims that it will boycott Turkey's upcoming constitutional referendum. 

HDP deputy Filiz Kerestecioğlu on Feb. 13 vowed that the HDP would not boycott the referendum and would vote "no" in every poll. 

A total of 330 academics were expelled with a new state of emergency decree published in the Official Gazette late on Feb. 7, drawing criticism from the opposition and the scholars themselves about the effect the moves will have on education.

The academics were among 4,464 public workers who were expelled as part of the decree. 

The perpetrators of a Dec. 10 bomb attack in Istanbul will sooner or later "be made to pay," Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Dec. 12, vowing to take measures against terrorists, while his earlier comments sparked discussions in parliament.  

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has prepared a summary of proceedings for 12 deputies for violating an article of the rally and demonstration marches law, as well as violating privacy of the trial, as part of the closed-door trial of Cumhuriyet journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül in the case of intelligence trucks bound for Syria.