The leader of the Kurdistan Communist Party (KKP), Sinan Çiftyürek, called for unity between Kurdish intellectuals, writers, democrats, and politicians.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – İstanbul ‘Killed, but not dead’ Journalists struggling for a free media alongside millions of Kurds have been commemorating the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of prominent Kurdish intellectual, Musa Anter.Read More
Twelve-year-old Helin Hasret Şen lost her life as a result of gunshots from a police vehicle after curfew was declared in the Sur district of Diyarbakır (Amed) on 12 October 2015.Read More
Democratic Kurdish Party Secretary General Cemal Şêx Baqî criticized the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP’s) military shipment to the border of Rojava. “The KDP helps Turkey’s Rojava oriented plan”, he said.Read More
Statements from 20 people, including Kars Municipality Co-Chair Ayhan Bilgen and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former MP Sırrı Süreyya Önder, were completed at the prosecutor’s office. The 20 HDP members were sent to the Penal Court of Peace on duty by the prosecutor’s office for arrest. Seventeen of the HDP politicians were arrested.Read More
Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces on the Nagorno-Karabakh border continue despite global calls for a ceasefire.Read More
Turkish Army Forces (TSK) and the Syrian National Army (SNA) which is backed by Turkey have begun to transport barley from the city of Serekaniye in North-East Syria to Turkey. The TSK and SNA had attacked Serekaniye on 9 October 2019.Read More
The tradition of pipe playing, one of humanities oldest wind instruments, continues in Kurdistan. Piper Reber Söyler, who learnt his trade from the pipe masters of Diyarbakır (Amed) in Turkey, wants this tradition to continue.Read More
Sultan Eylem Keleş / İstanbul As the conflict in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region between Azerbaijan and Armenia has entered its fifth day, there have been provocations against Armenians in Turkey. MedyaNews interviewed Rober Koptaş, a member of the Armenian community in Turkey. He expresses the concerns that other Armenians share in Turkey.Read More
Mesopotamia Agency (MA) and sendika.org websites have been blocked by a decision of the Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK) in Turkey.Read More
