Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, raised the ongoing hunger strike of Leyla Güven, an imprisoned MP for the pro-Kurdish HDP party in Turkey, in the Dáil. Leyla Güven has been on hunger strike in a Turkish prison against her unjust detention since 8 November and she is now in a critical […]
Speaking in the Dáil, Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, raised his concerns over the continued detention of activists from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkish jails, with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Simon Coveney. Crowe welcomed the reply from Minister Coveney and that the Minister shares his […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, has condemned the Turkish authorities reported torture and ill-treatment of some of the 50,000 political prisoners imprisoned in the country’s jails. Crowe was speaking out after reports emerged of significant overcrowding, widespread physical abuse, systematic torture, and the denial of medical treatment in Turkey’s prisons. The information […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, yesterday met with a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) activist to discuss the political repression the party is facing in Turkey, as well as the Turkish Government’s severe violations of international and human rights law. Crowe had planned to meet with a HDP MP but he is […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, has called for the immediate release of 11 Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs, and the two Co-Chairs of the party, who were arrested by Turkish security forces last night. Deputy Crowe said: “Yesterday, at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Irish Parliament, I discussed the […]
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