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Demirtaş: From Now On I Don’t Find Mass Meetings Necessary

Demirtaş: From Now On I Don’t Find Mass Meetings Necessary

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has said, “I don’t find mass meetings necessary from now on. We also would like to hold chirpy election campaigns with music, but conditions for this are now absent.”

12 October 2015

Statements from Kılıçdaroğlu and Demirtaş after Bombing in Ankara

Statements from Kılıçdaroğlu and Demirtaş after Bombing in Ankara

CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu: “Minister of the Interior and Minister of Justice must resign.” HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş: “Perpetrators will be put on trial, they can’t escape from prison without suffering the consequences.”

12 October 2015

Demirtaş: Volition for Resolution Must Immediately Revive

Demirtaş: Volition for Resolution Must Immediately Revive

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said “We don’t have solid information or data but the stage to where we took our studies requires us to be optimistic” in response to allegations that Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) might take decision of non-conflict.

Breast Feeding Woman Beaten “You are Breeding Terrorist!”

TORTURE AGAINST WOMEN UNDER DETENTION FROM HDP

Breast Feeding Woman Beaten “You are Breeding Terrorist!”

Women from HDP told the torture under detention: “They wanted to tear up a 65-year-old woman’s headscarf shouting ‘You aren’t worth wearing it,’ and pulled another’s hair saying ‘Where did you dye your hair?’.

8 October 2015 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

HDP Deputy Asks Parliamentary Question about Hate Speech in School Books

HDP Deputy Asks Parliamentary Question about Hate Speech in School Books

HDP Mardin deputy Mehmet Aslan asked a parliamentary question about marginalizing and discriminating expressions in Turkish Language Association against Arabs.

15 Politicians from HDP Arrested

15 Politicians from HDP Arrested

15 of 51 politicians from HDP who had been detained four days before in İstanbul were arrested this morning.

Parliamentary Question in Arabic from HDP

Parliamentary Question in Arabic from HDP

HDP Mardin deputy Mehmet Ali Aslan asked a parliamentary question about mother tongue-based education in Arabic. However, it was rejected without considering. Aslan: “All native languages should be free in the parliament.”

Police Operation in İstanbul

Police Operation in İstanbul

In 28 districts of İstanbul, 44 people including HDP executives and Özgür Gündem daily editor Hicran Urun have been detained by a police operation.

Parliamentary Question for Police Raid against DİHA

Parliamentary Question for Police Raid against DİHA

HDP Diyarbakır deputy Sibel Yiğitalp asked the Ministry of the Interior a parliamentary question for detentions and police raid against Aram Publishing House, Azadiya Welat, Kurdi-Der and DİHA.

30 September 2015

Demirtaş Implies Coalition with Republican People's Party

Demirtaş Implies Coalition with Republican People's Party

On his journey through Europe, HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said CHP and HDP should offer an alternative to the society to form an alternative democratic government.

28 September 2015

AKP Vice President Threatens 100 HDP Supporters

AKP Vice President Threatens 100 HDP Supporters

AKP Vice President Selçuk Özdağ threatened 100 HDP supporters who said “The Palace will be Overthrown, People will Win!” .

23 September 2015

Two HDP Ministers Resign from Interim Election Government

Two HDP Ministers Resign from Interim Election Government

HDP deputies Minister of European Union Affairs, Ali Haydar Konca, and Minister of Development, Müslüm Doğan resigned.

22 September 2015

HDP Asks Parliamentary Question about Child Abuse under Detention

HDP Asks Parliamentary Question about Child Abuse under Detention

HDP Van deputy Botan asked a parliamentary question about child abuse under detention.

15 September 2015

Minister of the Interior : We Won't Let HDP Delegation Enter Cizre

Minister of the Interior : We Won't Let HDP Delegation Enter Cizre

Minister of the Interior explained 69 party headquarters have been attacked for three days and they won't allow HDP delegation enter Cizre district.

10 September 2015

Minister of EU: HDP Deputies Return İdil District

Minister of EU: HDP Deputies Return İdil District

Hit the road to go Cizre district, HDP deputies had been blockaded by police. Deputies staged sit in, now they return to İdil district.

10 September 2015 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Deputies and Ministers from HDP March towards Cizre

Deputies and Ministers from HDP March towards Cizre

HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, ministers and about 40 deputies of HDP marched towards Cizre district. Although stopped twice on the road, HDP deputies continue to walk.

9 September 2015 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

HDP Delegation: 7 People Died in Cizre District

HDP Delegation: 7 People Died in Cizre District

HDP delegation explained 7 people died in two days and some quarters had neither electricity nor water and the hospital had only one doctor, in Cizre.

7 September 2015

Tarık Ziya Ekinci: HDP's Hand to be Strengthened in case PKK Announces Truce

EKİN KARACA'S INTERVIEW

Tarık Ziya Ekinci: HDP's Hand to be Strengthened in case PKK Announces Truce

Tarık Ziya Ekinci is of the opinion that Erdoğan is going to overlook persistence of the conflict atmosphere during the election campaign period to have the HDP remain under the election threshold.

21 August 2015 Ekin Karaca

Ertuğrul Kürkçü: Silopi People Want Peace

Ertuğrul Kürkçü: Silopi People Want Peace

HDP İzmir Deputy, HDK Co-Spokesperson Ertuğrul Kürkçü told “Everyone wants peace in Silopi. They say ‘We don’t want the death of soldiers and policemen beside our sons.’

13 August 2015 Ayça Söylemez

HDP Appeals to UN for Extrajudicial Executions and Enforced Disappearances

HDP Appeals to UN for Extrajudicial Executions and Enforced Disappearances

Peoples’ Democratic Party demanded an investigation from UN Rapporteur for "illegal, extrajudicial and arbitrary executions” in Turkey.

Funerals of 13 YPG/YPJ Members Delivered to Families

Funerals of 13 YPG/YPJ Members Delivered to Families

Funerals of 13 YPG/YPJ members were delivered to their families while 11 funerals are still being kept in Mürşitpınar border gate, near Syria.

HDP Requests Discretionary Fund to be Abolished

HDP Requests Discretionary Fund to be Abolished

HDP Group Deputy Chairpersons proposed parliamentary research for discretionary fund to be abolished and expenses of the presidency to be revealed.

Bülent Arınç: Be Silent as A Woman!

Bülent Arınç: Be Silent as A Woman!

Deputy PM Bülent Arınç said “Shush lady, be silent as a woman,” to HDP deputy Nursel Aydoğan. Arınç became the main topic before with his statements against women’s attitude and behavior in the society.

Erdoğan: Resolution Process is Improbable, We Call Everybody to Account

Erdoğan: Resolution Process is Improbable, We Call Everybody to Account

The President Erdoğan stated: “HDP officials should pay the price,” while saying parliamentary immunity of HDP deputies should be lifted. Erdoğan added he wasn’t in favor of closing parties.

HDP Leader Demirtaş: Peace Was One Move Ahead

HDP Leader Demirtaş: Peace Was One Move Ahead

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş:”These operations are carried out in favor of the government. We will struggle against AKP not to come power alone due to a snap election.”

HDP: Turkey Wants to Form a Buffer Zone in Rojava

HDP: Turkey Wants to Form a Buffer Zone in Rojava

HDP Group Deputy Chairpersons stated Turkey wanted to form a buffer zone in Rojava and today’s operations weren’t launched against ISIS.

CHP Rejects HDP’s Call for Emergency Meeting

SURUÇ MASSACRE

CHP Rejects HDP’s Call for Emergency Meeting

CHP rejected HDP’s call for “emergency parliamentary meeting”. 110 signatures of deputies are needed for emergency meeting in parliament.

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş: ISIS Cross the Border, Toys Can’t

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş: ISIS Cross the Border, Toys Can’t

HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş called for Turkey’s parliament to hold an emergency meeting.

Legislative Proposal from HDP to Abolish Highest Election Threshold in Europe

Legislative Proposal from HDP to Abolish Highest Election Threshold in Europe

HDP pointed out 10% election threshold was an obstacle for democratization and gave legislative proposal for threshold to be abolished.

HDP Leader: We Interpreted KCK’s Statement as Mutual Ceasefire

HDP Leader: We Interpreted KCK’s Statement as Mutual Ceasefire

HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş told KCK didn’t mention a total ceasefire. He indicated that incidents were reflected differently on the media.

HDP Deputy: Governorship Closed Cafeteria in Ramadan

HDP Deputy: Governorship Closed Cafeteria in Ramadan

HDP İstanbul deputy Ali Kenanoğlu opened up the subject that cafeteria of Governorship of Çorum had been closed during Ramadan and asked “How do they know that all people fast during Ramadan?"

Opposition Parties Comment on New Turkish Parliamentary Speaker

Opposition Parties Comment on New Turkish Parliamentary Speaker

HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said: “We casted 50 votes for Deniz Baykal. We wish the best for MHP. CHP Spokesperson Haluk Koç remarked:” A political party’s leader served the position of Speaker on a silver platter to AKP.