The Al Yarubiyah (Tıl Koçer) border gate, a crossing point along the Syrian-Iraqi border, was closed due to Russia’s veto in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) causing more than one million migrants in Northern and Eastern Syria to be deprived of humanitarian aid.Read More
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Executive Committee member Duran Kalkan commented on the political situation of Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan, the hunger strikes that are taking place in Turkey’s prisons, and the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP’s) and Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP’s) ruling reform discourses. Kalkan criticized the policies of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) […]Read More
European Union (EU) foreign ministers made statements on their negotiations with Turkey ahead of the EU leaders’ summit, which will be held on 10-11 December.Read More
It has been revealed that a village guard’s gun was used in the killing of a father and his daughter in the Çermik district of Diyarbakır (Amed).Read More
Akın Birdal, Honorary President of the Human Rights Association (İHD), spoke to the Mesopotamia News Agency regarding the attitude of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) towards the violations of human rights in Turkey and the isolation system applied in İmralı Prison.Read More
Savan Abdalrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Child abuse is a worldwide phenomenon, but it is of particular concern in eastern countries such as Iraq. When we speak of child abuse it could mean from anything from violence to mental abuse. According to the latest UNESCO data on child abuse in the Middle East, 18.8 percent of […]Read More
Turkish-backed mercenaries continue the looting and smuggling of ancient artifacts in Afrin. The Afrin Historical Sites Directorate had previously announced that the Turkish-backed mercenaries have been smuggling the historical artifacts excavated from thirteen mounds in Afrin.Read More
Jeen Peres Turkish military and affiliated armed opposition groups kidnapped and arrested 71 people, including 10 women and a child, in the Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin in the month of November.Read More
The investigation by Jin News Agency of a rape case in the Gercüş (Kercews) district of Batman (Elih) in Turkey has revealed that 27 men – including a specialized sergeant, a police officer and village guards – were reportedly involved in the rape of a fifteen-year-old child and forced two women into prostitution.Read More
Prisoners in Turkey started a five-day alternating hunger strike on 27 November to protest the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and mistreatments in Turkish prisons. The strike, which started with the participation of many prisoners across several different prisons, was taken over by a third group on 7 December.Read More
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