Osman Baydemir

 Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Osman Baydemir was detained on Jan. 6, online publisher Duvar has reported.

The historic referendum that will take place in northern Iraq's Kurdistan region is what Turkey has been denying for decades. Now that the decision is at the door, Turkish officials are halfheartedly making angry statements about a possible independent Kurdish state. But while the Turkish Armed Forces are carrying out an exercise on the border, Turkey's top soldier Gen.

The Kurdish-question focused People's Democratic Party (HDP) held a grand meeting in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır titled "Justice, Conscience and Democracy" in protest of the current state of democracy in Turkey and arrests of its lawmakers.

A mob of 20 to 25 people attacked a burial ceremony in a public cemetery in the Gölbaşı district of the Turkish capital Ankara on Sept. 13 when the body of Hatun Tuğluk was being lowered into her grave, according to eyewitness reports. Shouting slogans of not wanting the body of a terrorist buried in the cemetery, they attacked the people who were there for the funeral.

The burial of the mother jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy co-chair Aysel Tuğluk was attacked by a group chanting racist slogans in the capital Ankara late on Sept. 13, temporarily preventing the burial from taking place.

An investigation has been opened by the Interior Ministry into the incident, which has drawn condemnation across the political spectrum.

The burial of the mother jailed Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Aysel Tuğluk was attacked by a group chanting racist slogans in the capital Ankara late on Sept. 13, temporarily preventing the burial from taking place. 

An investigation has been opened by the Interior Ministry into the incident, which has drawn condemnation across the political spectrum.

A Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) delegation has vowed to continue their "conscience and justice watch" that they initiated outside the Constitutional Court in Ankara, demanding the start of a belated appeal process for the party's co-chair and other deputies who have been in jail over terror charges. 
 

The Kurdish issue-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has initiated a "conscience and justice watch" in front of the Constitutional Court in Ankara, demanding the start of a belated trial process for the party's jailed co-chair and other deputies.

Opposition parties criticized two newly issued state of emergency decrees, which extended President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's powers in line with the new executive presidential system. 

The opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) started on Aug. 15 its "justice and conscience watch" in the Aegean province of İzmir, after holding the watch in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Istanbul, and the eastern province of Van, Doğan News Agency has reported.