Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, imprisoned in Edirne Prison in Turkey, has spoken to the Financial Times (FT) about the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).Read More
A ‘Writers of the Future’ competition has been organised by the Cizre Region Culture and Arts Committee and the Rojava Literature Committee. Sixty children are participating in the competition.Read More
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has just announced its ruling regarding the application it received from journalist and writer-publisher Ragıp Zarakolu, regarding a lawsuit that had been filed against him in Turkey accusing him of “being a member of an organization”. In its decision, ECHR ruled that Articles 5 and 10 of the […]Read More
Translated from Gazete Karınca Several attacks have occured in the recent past regarding people who have been subjected to assault and/or murder due to their ethnic identities in Turkey. The deaths of a Kurdish construction worker in Afyon and a Syrian refugee in Samsun are the most recent examples of such attacks. Cuma Daş states […]Read More
Fifty photographers from all around the world collaborated with fifty prisoners in Turkey to create an exhibition called “Voice of Freedom”.Read More
Kurdish actor Erdal Ayna has been working in a construction job for the past couple of months due to lockdowns in Turkey. He could not even get paid for projects he was involved in due to the pandemic, since the cinemas were shut down and plays were canceled.Read More
Translated from Yeni Yaşam Child labour in Turkey continues to be both an international and domestic concern in the country. Despite efforts to establish policies to eradicate child labour and protect the interests of children, child labour problems persist.Read More
Eymen Hammamı, a sixteen-year-old Syrian refugee working in a bakery in the Vezirköprü district of Samsun in Turkey, was murdered in a knife-assault on the evening of 13 September.Read More
Bilingual signboards in Kurdish and Turkish have been removed by the trustee of Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality in the Çaldıran (Ebex) district of Turkey. The Democratic Regions Party (DBP) had been elected in 2014 but the trustee who has since been appointed has imposed the changes in Van.Read More
Doğan Çetin, who was carrying out his compulsory military service in Edirne, was subjected to racial discrimination, assault and verbal abuse by two soldiers when he spoke in Kurdish and also said: “I wish we had received an education in Kurdish”. After his assault, he filed a criminal complaint. He said: “I fear for my […]Read More
