Denouncing President Erdoğan’s onslaught on the democratic opposition in Turkey, The Left in the European Parliament, together with the Unified European Left at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, urge the EU to speak out against authoritarian repression… Continue Reading
Following a discussion at the Political Committee and the Subcommittee on Middle East and the Arab World, UEL calls for the immediate de-escalation and stop of violence in Israel and Palestine which has resulted already at 26 deaths. After the… Continue Reading
Solidarity with HDP The UEL group reaffirms its solidarity with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and its co-chairs, parliamentarians, mayors and members who have been imprisoned for purely political reasons. After the systematic repression against the HDP which include arrests, lifting the immunity of… Continue Reading
On behalf of the UEL Group Mr Kox asked the Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate a new wave of “politically inspired arrests and call on the Turkish authorities to end immediately this new crack down of the political opposition,… Continue Reading
On behalf of the left group in the Council of Europe, Mr. Kox asked the European Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic to look urgently at the situation of journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested in London yesterday.… Continue Reading
UEL Chair Tiny Kox, together with the chairs of the Group of the European People’s Party, the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and the Free Democrats Group at the Parliamentary Assembly of… Continue Reading
During the current affairs debate on the Copenhagen Declaration on the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) which was put on the PACE agenda on request by the UEL Group, UEL Member Hişyar ÖZSOY (HDP, Turkey) read… Continue Reading
Statement UEL on follow up of report on allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Urgent appeal to Assembly to restore its credibility The Group of the Unified European Left (UEL) urgently… Continue Reading
UEL Vice-chairperson Ms. Kavvadia (SYRIZA, Greece), attending the 3rd Congress of HDP in Ankara, has expressed the Group’s solidarity with the 3rd largest party in the Parliament of Turkey, which suffers under harsh repression of Turkish authorities. The police hindrance… Continue Reading
“Our fellow colleagues of the UEL-group from the Turkish HDP party have again been condemned to scandalous prison sentences. No democracy is ever possible without an opposition, but our colleagues from the HDP-party are prevented from doing their work as… Continue Reading