Nuray Çevirmen, a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Human Rights Association (İHD) in Turkey, spoke to Jinnews about the human rights situation in Turkey, violations of rights in prisons, and the ongoing hunger strikes against the İmralı Prison isolation conditions of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan.Read More
Seda Taşkın The people of Diyarbakır shared their criticisms regarding the trustee appointed by the government for Diyarbakır Municipality.Read More
People have continued to react unfavourably to the nature of relations between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Turkish state.Read More
The indefinite rotating hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey to protest against the prison isolation conditions of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and violations that are taking place in prisons, has reached its thirteenth day.Read More
by Mark Campbell It is important to understand from the beginning that the wider Kurdish Movement has always had a strong tradition of internationalism and has attracted non Kurds to their movement long before the Rojava Revolution but it is also true to say that never before have International Volunteers joined with the Kurdish struggle […]Read More
Turkey is at a transition point for thousands of refugees and migrants. Many try to reach Europe by passing through Turkey. They mostly enter Turkey from eastern borders and they first try to reach İstanbul in order to enter European countries.Read More
Two protestors lost their lives during the protests that broke out in several cities in response to the economical crisis and unpaid salaries in Iraqi Kurdistan.Read More
by Professor Cengiz Aktar On 10-11 December, the regular European Council meeting will take place. The agenda is crowded with COVID-19, climate change, trade, security, the Hungaro-Polish veto of the 1.7 trillion € 2021-2027 budget as well as external relations. External relations is mostly about how to rebuke Turkey as a result of the continuous […]Read More
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) alliance has applied a polarising policy in Turkey. While targeting the pro-democracy Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the government has also increasingly targeted the Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.Read More
Ali Eymen is two-and-a-half years old and suffers with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a deadly disease that severely limits his movement. Eymen has been connected to a machine for nine months, and needs gene therapy to recover. His family has asked for help from authorities and citizens and has now started an aid campaign for […]Read More
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