Ateş Alpar – Adana, Turkey Workers face difficult conditions in a ten-year-old plastic recycling factory in a small neighbourhood in Adana’s Seyhan district in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast.Read More
The Lazuri (Laz) language – which is spoken primarily along the southeastern coast of the Black Sea in Turkey – has been identified by UNESCO as a “language in danger”.Read More
Hasankeyf (Heskif), one of the most significant cultural heritage sites in the world where life had been uninterruptedly going on for the past 12,000 years, was submerged and destroyed by the Ilisu Dam on the River Tigris in southeastern Turkey. Director Elif Yiğit has captured this destruction in her documentary feature ‘Heskif’.Read More
Erdal Kotan, the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Pertek District ex-co-Chair has stated that prisoners are being kept in isolation at Elazığ (Xerpêt) High-Security Prison Number One in Turkey. He also criticized the prison administration for not allowing them to receive books.Read More
Turkish envoy Osman Köse, Osman Muhammed Ali and Beşdar Ramazan Salih were murdered during an incident in Iraqi Kurdistan on 17 July 2019. Six people were arrested and placed on trial.Read More
The first hearing of the lawsuit relating to the assassination five years ago of Diyarbakır Bar Association’s Chair Tahir Elçi is being held today.Read More
Celebrations marking the eighth anniversary of the foundation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were held in Diyarbakır (Amed) in Turkey.Read More
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu has made a statement on the agenda of Turkey and the Middle East.Read More
Iraqi Federal Police have found a mass grave containing the bodies of people killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Kirkuk.Read More
“World Kobanê Day” begins on 1 November to remember the resistance of the Kobanê people against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in 2014.Read More
