Sarah Glynn asked Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP Berdan Öztürk — who was in Strasbourg for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe — about the “Peace Process” between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
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Abdullah Zeydan, of the pro-Kurdish leftist Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, was elected in a landslide as co-mayor of the Turkish city of Van last year, before the Turkish government suspended him and replaced him with a government-appointed trustee. He spoke to Green Left’s Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg.
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Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Ebru Günay after she visited Australia with a Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party delegation from Turkey.
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Leaders of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition condemned the recent Israeli airstrike on a refugee camp in Rafah, Gaza, and called for Turkey to sever military and commercial relations with Israel, reports Medya News.
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Sarah Glynn looks behind Turkey's March 31 municipal elections, which saw President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's AKP pushed into second place and the pro-Kurdish Peoples Equality and Democracy Party make gains.