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Nov 21, 2009

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‘Either Onur Öymen or Alevis should leave the CHP’
Alevi associations based in Europe have continued expressing their reactions to Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen’s remarks about a 1937 rebellion in the Alevi town of Tunceli depicting a massacre in which 90,000 were killed as an anti-terror campaign.

DTP conditionally ready to talk
Selahattin Demirtaş, the parliamentary group leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), said it would be easier for the DTP to take responsibility during the democratization process if the government sent the message that “it is taking steps for the sake of the people and the elimination of violence, not only for the elimination of the [outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK,” which is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

‘Government does not pressure judiciary through Justice Ministry’
Claims that the government is pressuring the judiciary through Justice Ministry inspectors are not true, Justice Ministry statistics have shown.

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