The trial of the ‘Kızıltepe JITEM’ ended in a decision of the court to acquit all the suspects of murder charges in the case regarding the execution of twenty-two people between 1992 and 1996 in the southeastern province of Mardin in Turkey.Read More
The United Nations Syrian Commission of Inquiry report confirms that the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) has been committing war crimes in Afrin and Serêkaniyê, including abductions, disappearances, and gender-based sexual violence. Turkey is also held responsible.Read More
During the period of the Soviet Union, two hour weekly Kurdish broadcasts began in 1955 on Radio Yerevan (Erivan), based in the capital of Armenia. These broadcasts were heard all over Anatolia and became extremely popular.Read More
In Yakutiye, the central district of Erzurum in Turkey, where half the population is Kurdish, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) municipality did not include the Kurdish language on any billboards even as it used nine other languages to provide Covid-19 precautionary advice.Read More
Bahar Kartan says that the baby doll story is her own life story and prefers to use traditional Kurdish motifs that motivate her in her art: ”I try to reflect what I live for and what I feel”, Kartan says.Read More
Fırat Sözeri, who had been interviewed recently by Medyanews about the ban on PhD’s being written in the Kurdish language in Turkey, stated that he was threatened by people who called themselves “nationalists”.Read More
The Civil Society Association in the Penal System (CİSST) has just released a report assessing the ‘Covid-10 pandemic’ health and safety procedures in place in 112 prisons in Turkey. It concluded that there was generally a shocking lack of access to masks and cleaning supplies. There was insufficient ventilation in many prisons and many prisoners […]Read More
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The Witness Protection Act, a part of the “Law of Police Powers”, entered into force in 2008 in Turkey. Following the act, several people have been imprisoned by the testimonies of secret witnesses. Large numbers of political prisoners have been convicted and held in prisons due to these kinds of testimonies.Read More
Thirty three political prisoners in Diyarbakır ‘D-Type’ prison in Turkey were transferred to ‘F-Type High Security Closed’ prisons.Read More
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