Savan Abdulrahman – Iraq A survey conducted by a group of academics in KR-I shows that 81% of youth in Kurdistan would be willing to flee abroad to escape poor job prospects, corruption and injustice.Read More
Uğur Deniz – İstanbul Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut were thrown from a military helicopter on 11 September. This incident has been proved with hospital records and eyewitness statements. Upon waking in intensive care, Şiban’s first sentence was “They threw us”. This incident has been overlooked in Turkey – but what does the silence mean? […]Read More
Uğur Deniz – İstanbul After putting the “multi-bar associations” amendment into place, dismissing lawyers from their profession is now on the presidential agenda.Read More
According to Mesopotamia News Agency, Ali Boçnak (76), who was detained during an investigation carried out as part of the operations against the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), lost his life in Patnos L-type Prison, in the Kars (Qers) province of Turkey, on 23 September.Read More
Hani al-Gamal- Cairo Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar and the Speaker of eastern Libya’s parliament Aguila Saleh paid an unannounced visit to Cairo on 22 and 23 September.Read More
Thousands of villages and settlements in Turkey were dismantled during the clashes of the early 1990s.Read More
Medyanews Exclusive Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members, former Executive Board members, and co-mayors were detained on 25 September due to their calls for protests against ISIS attacks on Kobanî in October 2014.Read More
Protests were held across Turkey and Europe as the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office stated that a police investigation report would be prepared on seven HDP deputies.Read More
Detention warrants were issued by Ankara’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for a total of 82 people in seven provinces in Turkey. Police detained dozens of People’s Democratic Party (HDP) members, including Kars Co-Mayor Ayhan Bilgen, over the 2014 Kobanî protests against the siege by ISIS of Kobanî.Read More
A Turkish intelligence agent ‘confessed’ his plan to assassinate a Kurdish politician to Austrian authorities.Read More
