The Free Women’s Movement’s (Tevgera Jinên Azad’s – TJA’s) spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan is in detention in the context of an investigation that was launched in Mardin (Merdin) in Turkey. This is the 83rd time she has been detained.Read More
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) coordinated celebrations across cities in Turkey on 1 November, ‘World Kobanê Day’.Read More
The Kurdish poet and writer Celal Melekşa has died at the age of 69.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan On 26 October, people in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan woke up to see women’s dresses hanging on a long line stretching almost 5km long. Some could see it from their house windows, some through the windows of their cars as they drove along and many others came […]Read More
Walaa Abostit – Cairo Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow, along with a host of other Russian Foreign Ministry officials.Read More
Cities across Europe celebrated World Kobanê Day on 1 November.Read More
Two kolbers (cross-border labourers) have been shot on the Iran-Turkey border, according to a report by the Mesopotamia Agency.Read More
Turkish soldiers shot and killed Şerali Dereli (63) in a village in the Esendere region of Hakkari (Colemerg) on Saturday evening.Read More
The Makhmur People’s Assembly has protested the death penalty of Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er (Muhammed Beşikçi).Read More
As human rights violations increasingly soar in Turkey, the families and human rights associations struggle against the violations.Read More
