When some of the suspects in the ongoing Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) trial in Diyarbakır spoke in their mother tongue, which is Kurdish, the prosecutors and judges in the court referred to Kurdish as an “unknown language” in their court minutes.

Mensure Koçak, 80, who lives in the Ahlat district in Bitlis province, is attending a literacy course rganized by the Ahlat Public Education Center. Despite her age, she wants to learn to read and write.

An organization called the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) has taken responsibility for the recent vicious attack that took place in Taksim.

Conceptually speaking, it’s neither a “crisis” nor an “earthquake”; no, the best way to describe what is happening inside the Republican People’s Party (CHP) is a “civil war,” or perhaps a “palace coup.” With only eight months left to go before the general elections, the CHP is in a deplorable state.

I wrote a long while ago about how I predicted that Kılıçdaroğlu would no longer be able to tolerate Sav’s guardianship over the CHP, and that he would one day try to eliminate the same Sav team that was trying to keep him under constant control and supervision.

What sort of fate is this? Was it predetermined long ago? Or can things change? Can the CHP ever be transformed into a party that is able to reform itself, keep up with the changing times, even“capture the spirit” of the times in which we live?

Mentally disabled youths in Kayseri learn manual tasks as part of an EU project. Courses include jewelry design and shoemaking, among others.

I saw Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu speaking very confidently on TV for the first time. If a politician lacks self-confidence and makes a claim, his job is really difficult. Let alone increasing its votes, the CHP began to lose votes.

Irish nationalists tried to sit and talk instead of perpetuating a war that had no winners. We are proceeding toward this point in the Kurdish issue.

“We destroyed the empire of fear at the party. The party’s seats are not the properties of certain people. Those who derive their power from certain places do not have to stay in the ranks of this party,” says CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu.