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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Future of Kurds in the Shadow of Erdogan-HDP Rivalry
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Future of Kurds in the Shadow of Erdogan-HDP Rivalry

Saturday 26 November 2016
Selahattin Demirtas, the chairman of the HDP, condemned the Turkish government for shooting down the Russian bomber over Syria. Demirtas along with Figen Yüksekdağ, the co-leader of the HDP, backed the city clashes with the Turkish forces. They also took pro-PKK approach in their political agen ...
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Turkey Killed 275 PKK Members in Nov.
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Turkey Killed 275 PKK Members in Nov.

Saturday 3 December 2016 ،
Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, the HDP Group Deputy Chairman Idris Baluken, HDP lawmakers and the co-chair of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Sebahat Tuncel.
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Turkey to Give 142 Yrs. in Prison to Opposition Leader
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Turkey to Give 142 Yrs. in Prison to Opposition Leader

Wednesday 18 January 2017 ،
Selahattin Demirtas, 43, is known for his pro-Kurdish speeches in the Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeastern city of Diyarbakir. The political activist was already in prison over the accusations. He has been held in prison for more than two months without trial, based on the emergency status ...
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Ankara Anti-Kurdish Escalations Not Settling Challenge
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Ankara Anti-Kurdish Escalations Not Settling Challenge

Thursday 19 January 2017 ،
Selahattin Demirtas and Yüksekdağ, two top leaders of People’s Democratic Party of Turkey which strongly supports the rights of the Kurds inside Turkey, were given very long jail terms by the Turkish prosecutors. On Tuesday, January 17, the Diyarbakir court demanded 142 years in jail for ...
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Turkey’s Future after Erdogan’s Narrow Win in Referendum
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Turkey’s Future after Erdogan’s Narrow Win in Referendum

Monday 17 April 2017 ،
Selahattin Demirtas who is now in detention, as well as other small movements out of the parliament hold no instruments in hand to curb the ruling party's measures. Actually, the time is now for the Islamist and conservative camp to push the seculars and Kemalists to the sidelines in various eco ...
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Turkish Snap Elections: Erdogan’s Road to Power Solidification
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Turkish Snap Elections: Erdogan’s Road to Power Solidification

Sunday 22 April 2018 ،
Selahattin Demirtas in a blow to the Kurdish party’s political position. After the detention of a large number of the Kurdish leaders and activists, erosion of the power of the Ankara’s archenemy PKK following a period of home clashes with the Turkish army, and also rise of the nationali ...
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Opponents Build Firm Front against Erdogan’s Monocracy as Vote Nears
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Opponents Build Firm Front against Erdogan’s Monocracy as Vote Nears

Wednesday 9 May 2018 ،
Selahattin Demirtas is in prison for nearly two years, will unquestionably have the vote of the Kurdish part of the Turkish society. Now it becomes clearer how a unity of the nationalists, Islamists, leftists, and the Kurds can be risky to the Erdogan’s win. In the simplest view, entry of eac ...
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Erdogan’s Election Gamble Using Cross-Border Military Campaign
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Erdogan’s Election Gamble Using Cross-Border Military Campaign

Sunday 24 June 2018 ،
Selahattin Demirtas, the imprisoned co-leader of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), issued a statement from the jail arguing that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is turning the militaristic policies at home and abroad into a sacred issue for his own political interests. Demirtas a ...
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Turkey’s AKP Risks Loss as Local Vote Nears
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Turkey’s AKP Risks Loss as Local Vote Nears

Monday 18 March 2019 ،
Selahattin Demirtas, is the biggest rival of the AKP and has the largest support in the Kurdish-majority provinces. The party is at odds with the MHP on various home issues and so is against the MHP gaining the key decision-making post in the country. In this year’s elections, the AKP and MHP ...
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How Will Mayors Arrest Influence Erdogan And His Party?
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How Will Mayors Arrest Influence Erdogan And His Party?

Wednesday 20 May 2020 ،
Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag along with 9 other lawmakers, were arrested and jailed under charges of colluding with the PKK against the Turkish government.  The wave of arrests continued beyond 2016, though less intensive, until recently that the government once again stepped up the ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.