“During the impending turbulent days the only viable way for the left in defending and excercising the rights and interests of the working classes is -to repeat Lenin- to raise itself to the position of the vanguard of all oppressed.” told HDP Honorary Chair Ertuğrul Kürkçü addressing the 6th Congress ofRead More

In The World Transformed (TWT) event in Liverpool, held alongside the Labour Party conference, the honorary president of Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Ertuğrul Kürkçü, addressed a packed meeting entitled “A World for the Many.” alongside Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

For a PACE member from a country where 150 journalists are in prison, where thousands of journalists have been sacked after their media outlets have been seized by the government, and where around 40 000 social media users have been prosecuted for statements that they made on the Internet, guaranteesRead More

DAESH would have never appeared in this form should the US and the western big powers had not supported Islamist opposition movements and arm them to  stregthen their existence as proxies in the fight for regional and global influence during the Cold War and if they would have refrained from regimeRead More

Kürkçü, in his speech in the PACE on behalf of the Unifed European Left Group on the Report on Syria criticized the political myopia of the West: This perspective of an immediate collapse of the regime in Syria directed the West -and Ankara in particular- to turn a blind eyeRead More

The majority report by the sub-commission appointed to investigate “Roboski massacre” came to the worst possible conclusion after a year and a half.