Turkey

The Group of the Unified European Left is concerned about the detention of the Director of Amnesty International Turkey, Ms. Idil Eser, who has been arrested on June 6 along with 7 human rights defenders and 2 trainers who were… Continue Reading →

During its Group meeting on Wednesday, 28/6, the Group of the Unified European Left hosted the delegation of the spokesperson of HDP, Mr. Osman Baydemir, and two members of the Constitutional Committee, Mr. Mithat Sancar and Mrs. Meral Danış Beştaş, who… Continue Reading →

Two Members of the UEL Group, Ulla Sandbaek (Denmark) and Miren Gorrotxategui (Spain) visited Turkey between 13-19/02/2017 as part of the international peace delegation consisting of 10 members from Europe and North America, including Members of European Parliament and of… Continue Reading →

  Two vice-chairs of the Unified European Left Group, Andrej Hunko and Nikolaj Villumsen, participated in the election observation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. At Monday’s afternoon press meeting in Ankara the message from the international… Continue Reading →

The Group of the Unified European Left in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe deeply deplores that the Assembly will not be given a possibility to have an urgent debate this week in Strasbourg on the functioning of… Continue Reading →

During the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly in Nicosia the proposal of Mr. Kox to send a letter to the Turkish authorities in order to stipulate that any possible arrest of the four HDP and UEL members… Continue Reading →

The UEL co-chairman, Mr. Villumsen (Denmark) makes a visit to Diyarbakır, Turkey, to get information on how the HDP, which is a member of the UEL Group can be supported throughout Europe. Earlier this week, when Mr. Villumsen was representing… Continue Reading →

The arrests of the larger part of the political leadership of HDP, Turkey’s 3rd largest party in Parliament, is a flagrant violation of Turkey’s democracy by the country’s authorities. UEL demands immediate release of those arrested last night and calls… Continue Reading →

After the arrest of two co-mayors of Diyarbakir, the chairman of UEL, Mr. Kox has asked the Secretary General and the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe to carry as soon as possible investigations on the ground in order… Continue Reading →