Statement by the UEL group Thursday May 16, 24 convictions were handed down by the Turkish courts, sanctioning the political leaders of the HDP (pro-Kurdish party). The sentences ranging from 9 to 42 years of imprisonment constitute unjustified judicial harassment… Continue Reading
The UEL strongly condemns an eventual ban of the HDP, a party democratically elected by millions of Turkish people. The politically motivated actions by the Turkish government against the Party should immediately stop. The justice system needs to remain fully… Continue Reading
UEL chairperson Mr. Georgios Katrougalos (SYRIZA, Greece) participated in the 5th ordinary Congress of HDP on 3 July held in Ankara ahead of expected 2023 Türkiye’s presidential and parliamentary elections, and at a time when the HDP is facing a… Continue Reading
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
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
Today, the Vice-chairman of the UEL group Mr Hisyar Özsoy spoke on behalf of the Group in support of a resolution that has been presented by Mr Thomas HAMMARBERG and Mr John HOWELL on behalf of the Monitoring Committee during the debate under… Continue Reading
Joint statement by Manon Aubry and Martin Schirdewan, Co-Presidents of The Left group in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL and Tiny Kox, President of the Unified European Left group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe We,… 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
“The UEL Group in PACE considers the recent visit of Turkish President Erdogan to occupied Varosha in northern Cyprus a direct violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 550 and 789 and the recent Conclusions of the European Council,” says UEL… Continue Reading
The Group of the Unified European Left in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in cooperation with GUE-NGL at the European Parliament, convened a remote conference on the increasing tension in Eastern Mediterranean, where the international security situation… Continue Reading