Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has been held in İmralı F type High-Security Prison in Turkey since 1999. He has been kept in isolation for years while serving an aggravated life sentence.Read More
Raise in Special Consumption Tax (ÖTV) affects the secondhand car market negatively in Turkey. Van Car Dealers’ Cooperative chairperson İsmet İnan stated that the capital of car dealers shopkeepers reduced by half and added they did not predict a drop in prices.Read More
As the economic crisis deepens, the increasing agricultural input costs put the tobacco growers into trouble in Turkey.Read More
Nomads (Koçer) migrated to Siirt, Batman, and Şırnak with the coming of spring has come to Hakkari (Colemerg) city of Turkey as the weather gets warmer.Read More
The award winners of the 27th Musa Anter and Free Press Martyrs Journalism Awards have been announced. Medyanews reporter Seda Taşkın has also been granted the “Jury’s Special Award” with her photograph “The Hasankeyf.”Read More
Democratic Union Party (PYD) co-presidency council member Aldar Xelîl highlighted tensions at the Rojava border. “Why does it not seem like there is any connection between Rojava and Başur?”, he asked. He stated that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has built-up its military forces along with the South Kurdistan and Rojava border.Read More
A child who had been sent to Maltepe Sübyan Prison described what he went through: ”There is a torture room covered with a blue sponge. A few years ago, the guards raped the children there”.Read More
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Committee convened at Taksim Hill Hotel in Istanbul under the presidency of co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar.Read More
Fifty-year-old Osman Şiban, a father of eight children, is one of two people in Van, Turkey, who were picked up by soldiers on their land and allegedly then detained, tortured, and thrown from a helicopter. Şiban, who has just come out of intensive care, suffers from memory loss due to the torture he was subjected […]Read More
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) General Commander Mazlum Abdi spoke about the war crimes that have been committed by the Turkish state, which are also detailed in a recently released United Nations report.Read More
