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David Lammy is right to raise the alarm. Turkish and Kurdish businesspeople from Turkey who came under the Ankara Agreement and built lives and companies in the UK are facing refusals full of errors and the threat of removal.
This echoes the Windrush failures. The Home Office must fix these cases and treat people fairly.
The Home Office's treatment of Turkish businesspeople applying for ILR through the Ankara Agreement is outrageous and reminiscent of the Windrush Scandal. Callous and careless mistakes are being made with devastating impacts. The Home Office must act now.
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Speaker Numan Kurtulmuş says a parliamentary committee to oversee Turkey's peace process will be set up without delay. DEM's Halide Türkoğlu says İmralı access, new laws and prisoner releases must not wait.
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Iran's own forensic medicine body says Kurdish political prisoner Motalleb Ahmadian, who has cancer, must be treated outside Evin Prison. The Tehran prosecutor still refuses, rights groups say. He has been held since 2010.
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Turkey's Constitutional Court rules Mazlum İçli, jailed at 14 over a 2014 Kobanê protest killing, was denied a reasoned judgment: evidence he was at a wedding 140 km away was not weighed. Retrial ordered; he stays in jail.
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The KDP says it is in contact with the PUK to end the deadlock, as PUK officials prepare to leave government offices on Sunday. Washington, the KNK and the PYD all urge dialogue to avoid rival administrations.
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Jamileh (Mina) Mohammadamin Azar has been held incommunicado since a warrantless raid on her home in Bukan on Tuesday. Her husband was released the same day; three days later her family still has no word of her.
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Mother-tongue protests spread beyond Hasakah to Qamishlo, Amuda, Girkê Legê and Rmelan. Students reject the three Kurdish lessons a week limit and demand constitutional recognition of Kurdish.
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DEM's Ayşegül Doğan: the Peace and Politicisation Board must start work, complementary laws are needed, and journalists and rights groups should visit İmralı. Kurtulmuş finishes party meetings next week.
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PUK quits the KRG cabinet and says it will mirror any KDP appointments with its own Region president and ministers. Bafel Talabani pledges no bloodshed; the KDP had not replied by late Thursday.
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Iranian intelligence agents have detained more Kurds in warrantless raids in Miandoab, Baneh and Bukan, rights groups say. Their families do not know where they are being held.
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A landmine blast in a school courtyard in Zirgan killed a 12-year-old boy and injured more than a dozen children and teachers, as more displaced families return to the countryside around Serêkaniyê.
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Kurdish students marching in Hasakah for the right to learn in their mother tongue were attacked with stones and sticks, injuring at least four. "We want our language," they chanted.
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The Kurdistan Parliament has elected Vala Farid as speaker, with all 52 MPs present voting, ending a two-year deadlock. The PUK says it will not recognise the new presidency.
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From Edirne prison, ten years after his arrest, Demirtaş says he will keep supporting the peace process. DEM leaders demand his and Yüksekdağ's release, and the Peace Mothers take their call to Speaker Kurtulmuş.
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As Americans vote in the midterms, Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner call for closer US ties with the Kurds. "There have been times... where we've not done enough to protect our Kurdish allies," Warner says.
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Iran's Supreme Court upholds the death sentence of Arman Marefati, a Kurdish protester from Saqqez, rights groups say, as two more January protesters are hanged in Isfahan. His two Kurdish co-defendants were executed in June.
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Rojava and Kobanê universities reject Damascus' plans to merge them into state universities, demanding their Kurdish character, departments and teaching in Kurdish be kept. "Not merely names, but an academic identity."
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After a night-long vigil in Ankara, the Peace Mothers take their demands for Öcalan's freedom and the release of prisoners into parliament, meeting party groups one by one. "The architect of peace is still on Imralı."
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Explosive drones hit a Komala base in the Balisan valley near Erbil, causing damage but no casualties, while rights groups report new arrests of Kurds in Bukan and Piranshahr, including a Sunni prayer leader.
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Returns to the Serêkaniyê countryside resume: hundreds of displaced families left Hasakah on Wednesday for about 75 villages, the first convoy since 21 October, with about 1,000 more families due next week.
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