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South Tyrol’s autonomists win but lose ground as right-wing independentists double votes

The SVP, the main autonomist party in South Tyrol, won the Provincial Council election once again, although the most notable development was the growth of the pro-independence right-wing forces, which share an anti-immigration viewpoint. Seventeen elections since 1948, seventeen wins. The SVP, the main autonomist party in South Tyrol, won …

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Targeting Democracy: An Armenian Account of Kurdish Ambitions

          Photo: PYD Congress Day by day, Turkey’s onslaught against the Kurds is intensifying. Just last month, Ankara launched over 500 air strikes against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), while targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) only 3 times. By now, even senior U.S. …

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The Caracoles de Chiapas (Mexico): 20 years of Zapatista struggle – 10 years of self-organized autonomy

    We don’t want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don’t see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, …

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East-Turkestan: when self-government is denied

    The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is one of the five officially “autonomous regions” of the People’s Republic of China. A huge area (1,66 million km2), more than double the area of Turkey with about 22 million inhabitants, just 43% of whom are ethnic Uyghurs. The Uyghurs are among …

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Spanish state prefers violence so it ignores ETA’s intention to disarm

  Interview of Infowelat with Basque independentist EH Bildu’s member Jon Inarritu Garcia. He was a member of Spanish Parliament between 2011-2015 and he is currently a member of Spanish Senate for the same party.  Necat Ayaz:  Why Basque leftist nationalist political forces have been unsuccessful to create a strong …

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20 years of autonomy in Gagauzia

    There are not that many examples of working territorial autonomies in Eastern European States, but one of the first, Gagauzia in the Republic of Moldova, is going to celebrate its first 20 years of existence in 2014. Gagauzia is of particular interest for Turkey, as this tiny people …

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Thomas Benedikter: Autonomy in the Kurdish region will not disrupt Turkey, but makes country a better place

THOMAS BENEDIKTER is an economist and social researcher in Bozen (South Tyrol, Italy, 1957), graduated in Economics at the University of Munich (D) and in Political Economy at the University of Trento (I). Besides many years of professional activity in empirical social and economic research in his home region South …

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