Latest editorial
Leyla Guven
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the state violated the rights of Kurdish former MP Leyla Guven by refusing to release her after she was re-elected in 2018.
The former co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), an umbrella organisation for a number of Kurdish political movements, was first detained in January 2018 after describing Turkey’s military intervention in northern Syria as “an invasion.”
She was re-elected as an MP for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (HDP) that June, but the prosecutor’s office in the Kurdish-majority south-eastern city of Diyarbakir issued a new arrest warrant for her.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
