DEM Party rejects dissolution demands amid Turkey’s fragile peace talks - Syriac Press

Turkey’s Kurds and the Making of Erdoğan’s Autocracy

Turkey’s Kurdish political movement is unexpectedly emerging as a crucial partner in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ongoing drive to consolidate power and entrench autocratic rule. On June 12, Erdoğan announced that the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) had agreed to “walk together” with his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its far-right coalition partner, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). While the spec…

DEM Party rejects dissolution demands amid Turkey’s fragile peace talks - Syriac Press

ANKARA — The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (Halkların Eşitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, DEM Party) issued a strong response to recent accusations and calls for its dissolution by Mustafa Destici, leader of the Great Unity Party (Büyük Birlik Partisi, BBP), a member of the ruling coalition led by the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Destici accused the DEM Party of having af…