Turkey's Parliament restricts ability of Kurdish party to organize
AP-Turkey's Parliament on Thursday approved a measure that would make it harder for a pro-Kurdish party to organize politically by fielding its candidates as independents in general elections.
TDN-The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) decided yesterday to enter the national elections scheduled to take place on July 22 as independents in an effort to evade the ten percent election threshold that has prevented it from entering Parliament despite the huge support it has in the country's southeast.
Iraqi Kurd leader tells Turkey dialogue should replace threats
AFP-Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani denied that he threatened to intervene in Turkey over the Kurdish minority question, while warning Ankara he would not tolerate any threats from them.
Turkey's ruling party lobbying for presidential candidate despite tensions with
AP-Turkey's Islamic-rooted government was pushing ahead on Friday with its bid to get its candidate elected president despite objections from the military, which has threatened to intervene.
Zaman-Ahmet Türk, head of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), accompanied by two senior members of the party, met on Monday evening with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in the northern Iraqi village of Dokan, DTP officials in Ankara told Today's Zaman on Tuesday.
AFP-Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged snap elections and slammed a court decision to annul a presidential vote as a "bullet fired at democracy".
Council of Europe Urges Turkish Army to Stay out of Elections
Deutsche welle-The Council of Europe joined the growing chorus of disapproval over the statements made by the Turkish army that effectively warned that it would defend Turkey's secular state if a new president threatened it.
Turkish prosecutor probes Kurdish mayors for claiming rebel leader was poisoned
AP-A Turkish prosecutor is investigating whether 54 Kurdish mayors broke the law by claiming last month that rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was being poisoned in his prison cell, the government-run Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.
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AP-Turkey's Parliament on Thursday approved a measure that would make it harder for a pro-Kurdish party to organize politically by fielding its candidates as independents in general elections.
TDN-The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) decided yesterday to enter the national elections scheduled to take place on July 22 as independents in an effort to evade the ten percent election threshold that has prevented it from entering Parliament despite the huge support it has in the country's southeast.
AFP-Iraqi Kurd leader Massud Barzani denied that he threatened to intervene in Turkey over the Kurdish minority question, while warning Ankara he would not tolerate any threats from them.
AP-Turkey's Islamic-rooted government was pushing ahead on Friday with its bid to get its candidate elected president despite objections from the military, which has threatened to intervene.
Zaman-Ahmet Türk, head of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), accompanied by two senior members of the party, met on Monday evening with Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in the northern Iraqi village of Dokan, DTP officials in Ankara told Today's Zaman on Tuesday.
AFP-Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged snap elections and slammed a court decision to annul a presidential vote as a "bullet fired at democracy".
Deutsche welle-The Council of Europe joined the growing chorus of disapproval over the statements made by the Turkish army that effectively warned that it would defend Turkey's secular state if a new president threatened it.
AP-A Turkish prosecutor is investigating whether 54 Kurdish mayors broke the law by claiming last month that rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was being poisoned in his prison cell, the government-run Anatolia news agency reported Saturday.