"This is martial law," said Orhan Dogan, a Kurdish politician in Diyarbakir who served 10 years in prison after being convicted of having links to the PKK. Recently, Turkey's electoral commission ...

Amnesty International adopted Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle, Selim Sadak and Orhan Dogan as prisoners of conscience. The organization considers the prosecution to have been motivated by a decision to punish ...

Confirming a 1994 sentence and the 15 years in jail, Zana and her co-defendants – Hatip Dicle, Orhan Dogan and Selim Sadak – were not in the courtroom when the verdict was announced on ...

The release of the four last month was welcomed by the European Union and human rights groups. Ms Zana, Orhan Dogan, Hatip Dicle and Selim Sadak were jailed for their alleged ties to the now-defunct ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2001 that the trial of Ms Zana and her co-defendants, Orhan Dogan, Hatip Dicle and Selim Sadak, was unfair. But their retrial started only in March 2003, ...

“The decision of the Ankara First State Security Court sentencing ex-lawmakers Leyla Zana, Orhan Dogan, Hatip Dicle and Selim Sadak to 15 years imprisonment has been unanimously overturned ...

“From now on we shall work for peace and continue our struggle for more rights, equality and justice,” said Selim Sadak, who with Zana, Orhan Dogan, and Hatip Dicle, was sentenced in 1994 to ...

State Security Court sentences former DEP deputies of Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle, Orhan Dogan and Selim Sadak to 15 years imprisonment terms each in their re-trial. The 14th trial of former deputies of ...

For the first time since the immunity of MPs Orhan Dogan and his colleagues was lifted in March 1994, explicitly pro-Kurdish politicians will enter parliament. In the previous three elections, ...

Prosecutor Karacal justifiying with procedural reasons drops his indictment against journalist Nese Duzel for the words of pro-Kurdish politician Orhan Doğan whom she had interviewed for daily Radikal ...

"Since '92 there's been bitterness inside me" says Leyla Zana. Orhan Dogan finishes her thoughts like this: "Miss Leyla would like, along with Ismail Hakki Karadayi, visit the mothers of those ...

After the court upheld the original sentences (of 15 years) given in 1994 to Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle, Orhan Dogan and Selim Sadak, their atorney Yusuf Alatas said that he will appeal the verdict ...