Turkey's Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)
CHP trapped in intraparty struggle, again!
| OpinionA debate based on a fake claim in the Turkish daily Sözcü by the veteran journalist …
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OpinionTurkish incursion into northeastern Syria imminent
By Burhanettin DuranTensions between Turkey and the United States are re-escalating. Washington is inclined to delay the Aug. 7 agreement on the creation of a safe zone in northeastern Syria. In other words, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) is effectively ignoring U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to establish a 20-mile safe zone and seeks to stall the process – as it did in Manbij.
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OpinionPolitical parties in search of updated road maps
By Burhanettin DuranWith Parliament back from summer recess, Turkey's political scene is heating up. The Good Party (İP), part of the opposition-led Nation Alliance, announced that it will leave the alliance if the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) joins it.
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OpinionPressure on HDP good for Turkey and Kurds
By Burhanettin DuranKurdish mothers are cursing the PKK, the HDP and their 'Kurdistan cause' today. History won't kindly judge any politician who fails to live up to their responsibilities.
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To stop PKK terrorism, acknowledge the plight of Kurdish...
By Burhanettin DuranThe Kurdish mothers' protest in Diyarbakır teaches valuable lessons to the opposition, which is busy playing the three monkeys and seeing no evil
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Struggle of grieving Kurdish families who lost sons to...
By Meryem İlayda AtlasKurdish mothers, who have been staging a sit-in protest that is above all political ideologies and stances, demand their sons back from the PKK no matter what
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US must cut YPG ties over abduction of Kurdish...
By Kılıç Buğra KanatFor the last two weeks, the news of a group of Kurdish mothers protesting the abduction of their children by the PKK has dominated the headlines in Turkey. It all started a few weeks ago when Hacire Akar launched a sit-in protest in front of the pro-PKK Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Diyarbakır, over the abduction of her youngest son.
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PKK’s dirty gamble with Kurdish youth
By Talha KöseHacire Akar, a mother from Diyarbakır, is the symbol of a new protest movement against the PKK terrorist organization and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey. Her 22-year-old son Mehmet was taken to the HDP building in Diyarbakır by some of his "friends." To her dismay, she learned that her son joined the ranks of the PKK.
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HDP a heavy burden for CHP, İP
By Burhanettin DuranTurkey's opposition parties see the replacement of three elected mayors with independent trustees as "part of the government's political game." They claim that this measure was intended to "drive a wedge between the Nation Alliance's components." In other words, the opposition says that the Turkish government sought to plant seeds of discord between the Republican People's Party (CHP), the Good Party (İP), and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
