Pervin Buldan

The HDP suggests a much-awaited negotiations phase with the government over the Kurdish issue could start within a fortnig Turkey's government could shift into a negotiations phase "within two weeks" in talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in pursuit of a political settlement to the Kurdish issue, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yüksekda? said Feb.

Government officials have held intensified meetings with Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies over unrest in the southeastern district of Cizre, which has risen sharply with the recent killings of youngsters, allegedly by the police.

As the rivalry on the pitch heats up in the Ziraat Turkish Cup, a match between Istanbul giants Galatasaray and third-tier Diyarbakır Büyükşehir Belediyespor witnessed unexpected tensions mirroring the country’s political fault lines.

The parties involved in the Kurdish peace bid have jointly declared that a new phase in the process has begun, as committees under the guidance of the Undersecretariat of Public Order and Security will meet with the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, while the İmralı delegation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) will also join the meetings.

Both the government and the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have simultaneously announced that the stalled peace process has entered “a new phase,” with the latter emphasizing that the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will assume a more central role in the new phase.

A crisis in the Kurdish peace bid has passed and a new phase in the process has started, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Istanbul deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder has said, noting that issues that need to be resolved in the process would be done so urgently.

The recognition of “autonomy” is part of a “draft negotiation framework” drawn up by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in an effort to foster a substantial reconciliation process, according to a leading deputy of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

Despite holding a lengthy meeting that did not reflect a particularly negative mood, neither the government nor the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) have stepped back in their position regarding the definition of public order and its place in the resolution process.

Turkey's main opposition party has engaged in self-criticism on the Kurdish peace bid process.

"We couldn't explain our suggestions to Kurdish people for the solution of the Kurdish problem. We were at fault, not you," the Republican People's Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said at a party meeting extraordinarily held in the souteastern province of Diyarbakır on Nov. 29.

A parliamentary commission on graft allegations against former cabinet members has not worked on ‘sound ground’ so far as many details have been withheld, says the HDP No justification for a publication ban on proceedings at a parliamentary corruption commission mollified Turkey’s opposition parties, with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announcing that it was quitting the panel in