University student Gülistan Doku (21) has been missing in Turkey’s eastern Tunceli (Dersim) province for 300 days.Read More
Three people was murdered in a knife attack in France, reportedly by Brahim Aioussaoi, a migrant from Tunisia.Read More
Farmers in southeast Turkey complain that agricultural production is no longer economically viable. Many farmers state that they cannot even afford the cost of cultivating cabbages, which were planted in May and gathered in October. “Whatever we plant, our costs are not covered. The price of diesel, fertilizer and water is high”, noted a farmer.Read More
Medyanews Exclusive Global military spending has been gradually rising, notes the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). According to the Department for International Trade (DIT), Britain is second in the global rankings for international arms sales, behind the United States.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Poor neighbourhoods in Turkey have often been criminalized and ghettoized. When it comes to Kurdish cities, this marginalization becomes even more extreme, and ‘urban renewal’ can and often does have devastating consequences on the poorest residents.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Successive urban renewal projects in Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) two strategic districts, Sur and Bağlar, might be designed to achieve hidden objectives of the Turkish state. These are the sentiments expressed by a number of urban specialists and residents, who suspect that under the discourse of ‘modernization’ and ‘economic revival’, there […]Read More
by Seda Taşkın Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that medical staff in both public and private institutions will not be allowed to quit their jobs during the coronavirus outbreak. It was also stated that retirement procedures will not take effect during this period as well. The only exceptions are for those who are forced […]Read More
The Hrant Dink Foundation has published its ‘Hate Speech and Discriminatory Discourse in Media 2019 Report‘. According to the report, 4,364 news stories and columns containing hate speech against different religious, ethnic, and national groups were reported in 2019. In total, 5,515 hate speech items in these stories and columns were directed against 80 different […]Read More
Humanitarian and civil rights organizations based in Kurdistan and Europe have appealed to international society to break the silence and take action to save more than 400 women who have been kidnapped in Afrin.Read More
The Confederation of Kurdistan Communities of Germany (KON-MED) has issued a statement regarding World Kobanî Day, which takes place on 1 November: “The Rojava Revolution is our common revolution, its defense is our common responsibility”.Read More
