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Yıldırım was released only after four petitions were submitted to the country's top appeals court and parliamentary questions by other MPs about her situation.

Commenting on Sweden's NATO membership application and feminist foreign policy, feminist journalist Anne-Klara Bratt says many people in Sweden support the Kurds against Erdoğan's demands: "They say, 'Erdoğan should not decide who sits in the Swedish parliament'."

Drawing attention to the upcoming elections in the letter he has sent to journalists, including bianet’s project coordinator, Nadire Mater, the imprisoned politician underlined the importance of an alliance based on democracy but not any political party.

The 69-year-old politician spent 17 years of her life in Turkey's prisons. She had been living in Germany since 2015.

In the Kobanî trial, the Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court has concluded that it is obligatory for Kurdish politician and ill prisoner Aysel Tuğluk, who is diagnosed with dementia, to make her defense at court.

At least 38 Kurdish women politicians are either arrested or not behind bars, but on trial due to their speeches marking March 8 or November 25. Some of them are facing summaries of proceedings.

Kurdsat, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s TV channel has confirmed that Kurdish politician and former President of Iraq Talabani has passed away in Berlin where he was in treatment.

The prison history of the Kurdish movement goes back to the foundation of the Republic. Even though it is not exactly known how many people were sent behind bars due to the Kurdish question, it can be said that the figure is over 300,000. A large portion of this figure belongs to the post-1980 period. In general, it can be seen that the mass arrests take place during the periods in which violence and tension caused through the Kurdish question climbs. Our file, which examines the prison experience of the Kurdish movements, consists of three chapters. The first chapter includes the data of the period between 1925-2010 and its analysis. The second chapter examines the date as to KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) operations, which started in 2009 and still continue. The final chapter involves the chronology of the political parties preceding the Kurdish question from 1990 to date (from the HEP to HDP), and prison experiences of the figures who served as chairs of these parties. Prepared by: Nuri Fırat / Yılmaz Yıldız - 03 May 2017, Wednesday

ECtHR has ruled there is no violation of right to live in unidentified murder of Kurdish attorney and politician Şevket Epözdemir.

bianet interviewed HDP Assembly member Meral Danış Beştaş on the retrial order of Aziz Yıldırım due to the closure of Turkey’s Special-Duty Courts. She said the same should apply for KCK defendants.

Thousands of people gathered in Paris on Saturday to condemn the killings of 3 Kurdish politicians, demanding the police investigation to find the murderers immediately.

Journalist Emine Demir is one of the Kurdish journalists sentenced by High Criminal Courts in the Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakır. The courts decreed for prison terms of 167 years in total handed down to journalists of Kurdish papers and Kurdish politicians.