This year is the 83rd anniversary of the Dersim Massacre, which was carried out by the Turkish state in 1937 and 1938 in the Tunceli (Dersim) province of eastern Turkey. Seyit Rıza, who led the uprising against the Turkish state, was executed on 15 November 1937.Read More
Sahar Ali Translated from Yeni Yaşam Newspaper August 2014 represents a loss of life for all Yazidi women. Like many of my relatives and friends, I was captured after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked Sinjar. I remember the night we were taken from Sinjar to Mosul.Read More
Two workers from Maxmur refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, Mahîr Sêrtî and Eşref Korhan, were imprisoned by the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) Asayish security organisation on 25 September whilst on their way to work.Read More
The health condition of the seriously ill prisoner Fatma Tokmak in Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison in Turkey is getting steadily worse.Read More
Gülcan Dereli Translated from the Yeni Yaşam Newsletter Vedat Aydın was born in 1953 in the Bismil district of Diyarbakır (Amed) in Kazancı (Gundê Heciyê Kurmanca). He grew up in Kazancı and during his primary school education he attended a different school in a different village every year. His secondary school was in Bismil.Read More
Semra Turan – Berna Kişin Translated from Mesopotamia Agency Women have been resisting patriarchal and sexist policies to enable “change and freedom”. But these same problems have surfaced in different regions around the world throughout the year.Read More
Looting, heavy taxes and the seizing of property have led to a bad olive harvest for the second year in a row in Afrin Canton, Syria.Read More
Ateş Alpar – Adana Children who are supposed to read and play with their peers in Turkey are working under very harsh conditions in high-risk jobs. They work as if they are not children. They have to work in jobs that are very dangerous and might cause injury.Read More
MedyaNews Exclusive Giran Özcan, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Representative to the United States of America, in an exclusive interview, shared his views about the 2020 US presidential elections and Joe Biden’s presidency.Read More
After France banned a Turkish nationalist group called the Grey Wolves, the issue is now on the agenda in the German parliament.Read More
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