DEM Party to meet with Minister of Justice on Friday

DEM Party to meet with Minister of Justice on Friday

The İmralı delegation of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) will hold official talks with the Turkish Ministry of Justice on Friday. The delegation that will exchange views with the ministry consists of the MPs Pervin Buldan and Sırrı Süreyya Önder, as well as the parliamentary faction leaders in parliament, Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit and Sezai Temelli. Buldan and Önder had met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan last week. The u…

Speaking on live TV, İYİ Party leader Müsavat Dervişoğlu interpreted the process that began with the call to PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan as a “national security threat.” Dervişoğlu said, “Those in power today say, ‘I can do whatever I want.’ When you do that, the name of Türkiye’s regime cannot be democracy. It is called the dictatorship of the majority.”

Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc will meet with the DEM Party on Thursday. Click for more

NECİP F. BAHADIR | COMMENT Tayyip Erdoğan received the DEM delegation at the Palace the other day. We don’t know what they talked about for an hour and a half. Is there any compromise or agreement? That is also unclear. The parties did not make a ‘satisfactory’ statement regarding the content of the meeting. The character of Erdoğan and the AKP government; to work ‘behind closed doors’. Perhaps the government farthest from transparency… Öcalan’s…

Kurdish Peace Process Enters ‘New Stage’ as DEM Party Prepares for Talks with Justice Minister

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is set to meet with Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç next week to explore possible legal reforms, signaling what party officials are calling a “new phase” in the long-stalled Kurdish peace process. The announcement comes on the heels of a landmark meeting on Thursday between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and DEM Party lawmakers Pervin Buldan and Sırrı Süreyya Önder, the first di…

Pro-Kurdish party to meet with justice minister, says peace efforts enter new phase - Turkish Minute

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is expected to meet with Turkey’s justice minister next week to discuss potential legal steps in what party officials describe as a new phase in the Kurdish peace process, following their Thursday meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. DEM Party lawmaker Pervin Buldan, who took part in the meeting at the presidential palace along with İstanbul MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder, said in…