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Turkey sentences pro-Kurdish politicians to lengthy prison terms over deadly 2014 riots
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoThe protests were called by leaders of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party, or HDP, who...
Turkey convicts former pro-Kurdish party officials over 2014 Kobani protests
Reuters via AOL· 7 days agoAnother pro-Kurdish party leader, Figen Yuksekdag, was sentenced to just over 30 years in jail. The...
Turkey’s “Kobane trial” sentences Kurdish politicians to prison for decades
World Socialist Web Site· 5 days agoKurdish politicians, 18 of them imprisoned, are on trial over mass protests in Turkey in 2014 in...
Key Kurdish politician gets 42 years in jail over 2014 Turkish riots
dpa international via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDemirtaş, former co-chair of the now-defunct pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has been...
Turkey court jails Kurdish leader for 42 years over 2014 unrest
AFP via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA Turkish court on Thursday sentenced the former head of a pro-Kurdish party to 42 years in prison...
Demirtas: Erdogan's Kurdish nemesis condemned to prison
Alaska Superstation· 6 days agoA telegenic former lawyer who ran against Erdogan twice -- the second time from jail -- Demirtas has...
Political prisoners mount hunger strike as state repression grows in Turkey
World Socialist Web Site· 6 days agoRezan Şengül, Vedat Doğan and Halil Yakut, political prisoners in Kırşehir High Security Prison in Turkey, went on hunger strike on March 30, April 3 and April 18, demanding an end to isolation ...
Fireworks and dancing as Iranians defiantly celebrate Raisi’s death
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoDefiant acts of celebration broke out in Iran as state television broadcast footage of mourning...
Why the BBC could track down a people-smuggling kingpin before the police
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoUnable to track him down, a Belgian court convicted him in his absence of 121 counts of people...