The 20th hearing of the case known as the Dargeçit Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism (JİTEM) trial – concerning the enforced disappearance of eight persons, including one specialist sergeant Bilal Batırır and three children in the Dargeçit district of Mardin province in Turkey between 29 October 1995 and 8 March 1996 – was held.Read More
Under the governance of the North and East Syria Autonomous Administration, Raqqa is one of Syria’s most ancient cities.Read More
Kurdish and German revolutionaries have carried out an act of civil disobedience outside an arms factory in Kiel, Germany.Read More
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council co-chair Besê Hozat has weighed in on the isolation of Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the responsibility of European countries for this isolation.Read More
Afrin County Council co-chair Muhammad Naso has criticised the embargo implemented on migrants from Afrin by the Syrian administration and stated that Syria’s attitude was similar to the Turkish state’s. Naso also drew attention to Russia’s responsibility.Read More
Amed City Theatre in Diyarbakir (Amed) is reopening with the play ‘Hema Hema Jin: Elizabeth’ (‘Almost women: Elizabeth’) on 6 November. The theatre was closed due to coronavirus precautions for months.Read More
MedyaNews Exclusive Heja Netirk had been trained and educated in traditional Kurdish music and conducted research into dengbej’s (traditional Kurdish singers). She learned to play the guitar whilst imprisoned for nine months in Turkey.Read More
The objection of the Kurdish refugee, whose asylum application was rejected by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), has been upheld by the Osnabrück Administrative Court, who accepted the application on the basis of unlawful decisions in Turkey.Read More
At least 61 people died in a shipwreck in Lake Van (Wan) on 27 June.Read More
By Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have held a new round of negotiations on Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam, following weeks of suspension.Read More
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