Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry received his Armenian counterpart Armen Sarkissian Zohrab Mnatsakanyan in Cairo on Sunday.Read More
Ecology organisations have issued a public statement protesting against the forest fires in Mount Cudi.Read More
Lider Polat was tortured for five hours after having his vehicle hijacked in Istanbul by attackers posing as police officers.Read More
Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar have visited former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and former HDP deputy Abdullah Zeydan, both of whom have been imprisoned in Edirne F-type High Security Closed Prison.Read More
Construction workers from Van (Wan) have been assaulted with a gun in the Dinar district of Afyon in Turkey.Read More
Meghan Bodette – USA On 12 September 1980, the Turkish military seized power from the country’s elected government, imposing a right-wing nationalist dictatorship.Read More
Ender Zaman – Istanbul Two years after the establishment of the Reinforcement Ready Forces Directorate in Turkey’s capital Ankara, the President’s decision to establish another Reinforcement Ready Forces Directorate in Istanbul, directly tied to the central administration, sparks further worries regarding the increase of human rights violations that have been already escalating. Lawyer Rengin Ergül, […]Read More
The Raqqa Museum is one of many cultural and historic sites that were targeted during the war in Syria. Established in 1861 under Ottoman rule, the site was used as a military base by occupying French forces, and was converted into a museum in the 1980s. Around 8,900 historical artifacts were displayed there.Read More
The state trustee appointed to Mardin Municipality has fired the head of the Department of Women and Family Policies, Mehtap Bingül.Read More
Clashes between PKK guerillas and the Turkish army are ongoing in South Kurdistan. It has been reported that fighting lasted through the night on September 11th in the town of Batifa in Dihok’s Zaxo province.Read More
