The First Step is to Free all the Ahmet Kayas
25 November 2013/ ANFFormer BDP Diyarbakır MP and HDK administrative committee member Akın Birdal has spoken to ANF regarding PM Erdoğan’s comment to the effect that "we will see those in the mountains come down and the prisons' emptied” Akın Birdal emphasised that while hundreds of sick prisoners have been left to die or transferred to prisons far from their families these words had no credibility in the eyes of the Kurdish and Turkish peoples.
Birdal added that in an environment where thousands of people involved in legal democratic politics are in jail talk of coming down from the mountains amounted to nothing more than a call to surrender.
http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/the-first-step-is-to-free-all-the-ahmet-kayas.htm
Bese Hozat: PKK is a social system today
25 November 2013 / ANFThe Kurdish Liberation Movement made up of a group of Kurdish and Turkish youths, known as pro-Apo (Öcalan) and -national liberation groups till 1978, became a party following the first congress held in the house of the Zoğurlu family, which supported the organization since its formation, in the Fis village of Diyarbakır's Lice district on 26-27 November. The PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party, Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan) has become a public movement addressing millions during the 35 years that have passed since the first congress which had been attended by 22 delegates. Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-President Bese Hozat spoke to ANF about the struggle PKK has given for 35 years now, what it has achieved so far and what kind of a change and transformation it has introduced to the Kurdish people.
http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/bese-hozat-pkk-is-a-social-system-today.htm
'Jin, Jiyan, Azadi' thousands said in Amed
25 November 2013 / ANFThousands of women have taken to the streets in the main Kurdish city Amed/Diyarbakır today to mark the International Day of Elimination of Violence Against Women. The march organized by Democratic Free Women's Movement (DÖKH) was joined by a large number of women and women's organizations.
"Jin Jiyan Azadi" [Women, Life, Freedom] read the banners they carried as they marched from Ofis to Bağlar district, chanting the slogan "We are not remaining silent but getting organized". In a statement on behalf of the women joining the rally, Kardelen Women's Shelter Spokesperson Yeliz Ayyıldız called attention to the increasing violence against women in Turkey and remarked that the male-dominant capitalist system was responsible for systematic violence and the slavery life women are being doomed to.
http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/jin-jiyan-azadi-thousands-said-in-amed.htm
BDP to hold primary election in Diyarbakır today
24 November 2013 / ANFPeace and Democracy Party (BDP) has received over ten thousand applications for mayor and city council member candidateship for the approaching local elections which will be held next March. A total of 167 people have put down their names in the list for candidates from which the mayor candidates will be selected for Diyarbakır/Amed Municipality. The number of those who have stood for seat in the city council of Bağlar, Sur, Yenişehir and Kayapınar Municipalities has reached 299 by now.
According to the information obtained from the BDP electoral commission, 167 people have applied for mayor nomination candidacy so far, including 8 in Bağlar, 11 in Bismil, 6 in Çermik, 7 in Çınar, 1 in Çüngüş, 1 in Eğil, 10 in Dicle, 24 in Ergani, 9 in Hani, 12 in Hazro, 14 in Kayapınar, 15 in Kocaköy, 5 in Kulp, 8 in Lice, 11 in Silvan, 13 in Sur, 10 in Yenişehir and two for Amed metropolitan municipality.
http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/bdp-to-hold-primary-election-in-diyarbakir-today.htm
Pro-Kurdish party leader recommends HDP, CHP to discuss alliance
21 November 2013 / World BulletinPro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtas stated that his party suggests the People's Democracy Party (HDP) -- which is considered to be the sister party of the BDP -- to be open to an alliance with main opposition People's Republican Party (CHP) in the upcoming local elections.
In order to bring its potential out in the local elections, the HDP should consider an alliance with the CHP, Demirtas said in Diyarbakır on Thursday.
He added that there has not been any talk between the two parties on a possible alliance.
At the congress, the HDP started its municipal election campaign strategy with the slogan, “The BDP in the east, and the HDP in the west.”
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=123434
Istanbul rally voices support for Syria's Kurds
24 November 2013 / Press TVThe Peace and Democracy Party --- one of the Kurdish parties in Turkey --- has held a mass rally in the city of Istanbul. Thousands, including representatives and supporters of about 20 more political parties and organizations also attended the rally at Kadikoy square. The demonstrators said the rally was in solidarity with the Kurdish resistance in neighboring Syria's Rojava region, and also to promote peace. The demonstrators chanted slogans in support of cross-border peace, after co-leader of the Syrian Democratic Union Party announced that his party is ready for renewed talks with Ankara.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/11/24/336490/istanbul-rally-voices-support-for-syrias-kurds/
PHOTOS: Protests in Turkey over govt education policies
24 November 2013 / RThttp://rt.com/in-vision/turkey-education-protest-clashes/
Oppressed Kurds defend their lands in Syria civil war
The MilitantKurdish militias have routed al-Qaedist forces in northeast Syria, securing their control over more than 20 towns and villages. By late October, Kurdish forces had extended their control over most of Hasakah province. This ground, taken in the course of the Syrian civil war, is part of a broader rise in the struggle of the Kurdish people, an oppressed nationality of some 30 million concentrated in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Of the more than 2 million Kurds in Syria, the largest concentration resides in Hasakah province, which is 70 percent Kurdish. The other major concentration is in the district of Efrin in the northwest, where their numbers have doubled over the course of the civil war. These areas are commonly referred to by Kurds as Rojava (western Kurdistan). Kurds also comprise a significant minority in both Damascus and Aleppo.
http://www.themilitant.com/2013/7743/774304.html
PYD Leader Warns of War with Arab Settlers in Kurdish Areas
24 November 2013 / Rudaw The leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), Salih Muslim, has warned that the Kurds' future war would be with Arabs who have settled in the Kurdish areas with the help of the Syrian regime. "One day those Arabs who have been brought to the Kurdish areas will have to be expelled," said Muslim in an interview with Serek TV. The PYD leader said that the situation in Qamishli and Hasakah is particularly explosive and that "if it continues the same way, there will be war between Kurds and Arabs."
Qamishli is the largest Kurdish city in Syria and Hasakah boasts most of the country’s oil wealth. Muslim's own armed forces known as People's Protection Units (YPG) have been in control of Syria's Kurdish areas for the past year and a half.
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/24112013
COMMENT, OPINION AND ANALYSIS
Turkey needing to rebuild Middle East bridges
24 November 213 / EncaTurkey's ambitions to become a regional leader with a "zero problems" foreign policy have been left in tatters by the Syrian civil war, rising sectarian tensions and a fresh diplomatic fallout with Egypt. The predominantly Sunni Muslim NATO member state is now seeking to mend fences with Shiite powers Iraq and Iran to restore its waning clout in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab spring uprisings. The Syrian conflict has upset the balance of power in Turkey's backyard and dealt a blow to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's lofty regional goals, his stature on the international stage also tarnished by the wave of anti-government protests that gripped the country in June.
http://www.enca.com/world/turkey-needing-rebuild-middle-east-bridges
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Risks and Opportunities for the Region
25 November 2013 / Middle East InstituteThe nuclear deal with Iran, though still temporary and tentative, is ushering in a historic shift in the patterns of power, conflict, and diplomacy in the region. Like all historic shifts, it is laden with uncertainty and risk of new conflicts, but also carries with it potential opportunities for further diplomacy and finding common ground. Given the precedent of conflict and mistrust in the region, it is no surprise that the deal has raised concerns among many of America’s allies. Throughout most of the administration of George W. Bush, Iran was seen as an implacable enemy, a member of an “axis of evil.” When Obama tried to turn that posture around in 2009, he was met by the hard-line rebuffs of President Ahmadinejad. When President Rouhani replaced Ahmadinejad in August of this year, the two “moderates”—Obama and Rouhani—with vigorous help from their engaged foreign secretaries, Kerry and Zarif, have managed to put the U.S.-Iranian relationship on a new course.
http://www.mei.edu/content/iran-nuclear-deal-risks-and-opportunities-region
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