“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
Today, Mr. Kox, chairman of the UEL Group, addressed his PACE colleagues, chairpersons from the political groups and leaders of the national delegations in a letter calling for a fair trial for and release of Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chairperson of HDP. “May I therefore… Continue Reading
Today, the chairman of the UEL Group, Mr. Kox has addressed in a letter the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Mr. İsmail Kahraman and urged the latter to respect the rights of its elected MPs who are… Continue Reading
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