Tag Archives: AKP

The Guardian goes easy on the Turkish State

Posted on 06/03/2016 by Ed Sykes

Just as the Turkish State’s attack on the Kurdish town of Cizre was beginning to get more attention in the Western media, Ankara decided to ease its siege. But while the Guardian reported on the reduction of the curfew in … Continue reading →

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Cizre, Leyla İmret, & Turkish Democracy

Posted on 12/09/2015 by Ed Sykes

The HDP co-mayor of the Cizre district of Turkey’s Şırnak Province, 28-year-old Leyla İmret, was brought into the world of politics very abruptly at an early age, with her father being killed “before her eyes” by Turkish “security forces” when … Continue reading →

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Demirtaş to Turkish PM: ‘Prove they were not civilians’

Posted on 11/09/2015 by Ed Sykes

A week on from the start of a Turkish military siege on the city of Cizre, the co-leader of Turkey’s progressive pro-peace party (the Peoples’ Democratic Party or HDP) has insisted today that at least 20 of those killed by … Continue reading →

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