Ateş Alpar / İstanbul Artist Zehra Doğan’s first solo exhibition in Turkey is entitled “Nehatîye Dîtın/Not Approved”. It will be on display until 9 November 2020 at the Kıraathane İstanbul Edebiyat Evi cultural centre in İstanbul.Read More
The Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met on 9 October in Moscow after Russian president Vladimir Putin’s appeal to them to end the clashes.Read More
Two Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bombers had consecutively attacked ‘Labour-Peace-Democracy’ march in front of Ankara’s train station on 10 October 2015 in Turkey. Over one hundred people were killed and over five hundred were injured as a result of the attacks. Following the suicide attacks, the police had attacked people as […]Read More
Mesopotamia Agency reporters Adnan Bilen and Cemil Uğur, alongside JinNews reporter Şehriban Abi and journalist Nazan Sala were arrested on the grounds that they had reported that Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut had been detained and thrown from a military helicopter by soldiers on 11 September in Çatak district in the city of Van (Wan) […]Read More
Despite opposition from local villagers, a hydroelectric power plant project was approved and built at a point along the Zorava stream in 2015 in the district of Siirt (Sert) in Turkey. Five years later, a new hydroelectric power plant project is planned – just seven to eight kilometers away from the previous one. Zorava stream […]Read More
Although the olive harvest has begun in Afrin in Northern Syria, villagers are unable to sell their harvest due to attacks from gangs in the region. The Turkish backed Cebhe El Şamiya and Hemzat gangs have been stealing olives from the villagers.Read More
Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Turkey has announced it plans to test-fire the controversial Russian-built S-400 air defense system within the next two weeks.Read More
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has been held in İmralı F High-Security Prison since 1999. He has been kept in isolation for years, serving aggravated life imprisonment. The Freedom for Öcalan Initiative has appealed to “all institutions, intellectuals, individuals and organizations that support peace, democracy, justice and freedom […]Read More
Seda Taşkın Deniz Özer is a 25 year-old comedic actor performing in Kurdish, who has over half a million followers on social media. Özer spoke to Seda Taşkın about how and why he started acting and what he did before taking up the profession.Read More
Turkey’s currency continues to depreciate against the United States (US) dollar. The dollar rose again above the 7.85 Turkish Lira (TL) level, and the euro rose to 9.23.Read More
