Savan Abdalrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan For three days in a row, last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, protests took place in the Sulaymaniyah province of Iraqi Kurdistan. The protests were organised by teachers whose salaries were to be cut by 21% by the authorities due to the economic crisis. Soon, hundreds of teachers and ordinary people […]Read More
On 19 December 2017, authorities demolished Garzan Cemetery in the Bedlîs Oleka Jor district in the eastern province of Kurdish-majority populated Bitlis in Turkey and removed 282 bodies without informing their families about this.Read More
Indicating that they had to migrate for the third time due to the attacks of the Turkish state and its affiliated armed groups, the internally displaced refugees from Tell Abiyad (Girê Spî) pointed out that the Turkish state attacks Kurds everywhere.Read More
Nineteen people, including Istanbul’s Şişli Deputy Mayor Cihan Yavuz, were detained during house raids in Istanbul on 26 November. Those detained included activists, politicians and journalists.Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo History runs as quick as a flash inside Seydê Rachid Dîkê’s mind. A native of the northern Syrian city of Afrin in his early sixties, Dîkê remembers the times he spent in Afrin and other parts of Syria before he settled permanently in Egypt.Read More
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) headquarters have been set aflame in Piramagrun district in Sulaymaniyah province of Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday on December 6.Read More
Four women, whose family members have become unemployed due to the Covid-19 outbreak, have began to make pastry products in their bakery “Kadın Eli Tandır Evi” (Women’s Hands, Bakery House) in Van (Wan), Eastern Turkey. The Covid-19 outbreak has spread across the world as governments implement plans to combat against the virus and with various […]Read More
Turkish security forces were the perpetrators of an incident of child abuse, it has been revealed.Read More
European Commission vice-president Margaritis Schinas has said that the European Union (EU) will discuss the details of medium and long term sanctions against Turkey, after condemning its unlawful explorations in the Eastern Meditteranean.Read More
The Saturday Mothers, relatives of missing persons and human rights defenders made a statement demanding to know the fates of those who were disappeared by the Turkish state while under custody.Read More
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