A leading force of the Rojava Revolution in Syria, the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) have inspired many people and groups worldwide since they were formed on 4 April 2013. HawarNews interviewed two sisters (who are actually twins) who are in the YPG who explained how they joined and what the YPJ means to them.Read More
Children in Ain Issa (Eyn İsa) wake up to the sounds of bombs and artillery fire and are losing their rights by the day, according to an account by Hawar News.Read More
The ‘Bill on Preventing the Spread and Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction’ was approved by the General Assembly of the Turkish parliament on 26 December.Read More
The Turkish state has increased its attacks on Ain İssa (Eyn İsa) since 18 December, when it took over Tel Abyad (Grê Sipî) and Ras-al-Ayn (Serêkaniye).Read More
The hunger strike launched by political prisoners in Turkey to protest both the isolation imposed on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and the violations of rights inside prisons has reached its 30th day with the participation of a sixth group of prisoners.Read More
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Grand Chamber decided that former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was to be released immediately on 22 December. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ignored the decision and said, “The decision is not our concern”, leading to angry reactions across Turkey.Read More
Turkish fighter jets bombed 34 villagers in the Uludere (Roboski) district of Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey on 28 December 2011. Villagers, including children, were carrying fuel, tea and sugar to the other side of the border. Some accused villagers of smuggling to legitimise the murders. Cases filed in military and civil courts were subsequently dropped […]Read More
Many villages have been destroyed and emptied, and hundreds of people have been forced to flee their homes, since Turkey launched Operation Claw-Tiger in the Haftanin (Heftanîn) region of Kurdistan on 16 June. However, Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Executive Board member Ekrem Hiso said that Turkey has failed in Haftanin and for that reason it […]Read More
The fifth hearing of the case regarding the assaults and killings of four members of the Şenyaşar family, carried out by AKP deputy İbrahim Halil Yıldız’s guards and relatives during an election campaign in the Suruç (Pirsus) district of Şanlıurfa (Riha) in Turkey on 14 June 2018, was tried in the Malatya Third High Penal […]Read More
Bereaved families are still awaiting the return of loved ones’ remains after they were buried in plastic boxes under concrete sidewalks in Kilyos Cemetery.Read More
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