The second hearing of a Turkish trial of journalists took place at İstanbul’s 34th High Criminal Court on 9 September. The journalists were accused of reporting the killing of a Turkish intelligence officer in Libya.Read More
Thirty-seven people, including thirty-three intellectuals and writers, were killed in a hotel fire started by a mob in the central Anatolian province of Sivas on 2 July 1993. They had come to attend the Alevis’ Pir Sultan Abdal Festival.Read More
Translated from Jin News Although the Minister of Treasury and Finance in Turkey, Berat Albayrak, claims that “the economy in Turkey will get better very soon and this will be felt throughout the country”, people still suffer from high prices in the markets and are unable to afford even basic food items.Read More
Gülistan Doku, a 21-year-old university student in the city of Tunceli (Dersim) in Turkey, has been missing for 239 days. The search for her was officially ended on 18 August.Read More
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council member, Mustafa Karasu, has spoken about the 1980 coup d’état, the Turkish state’s attacks and the attitude of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). Karasu stated that it is apparent that the KDP supports Turkey.Read More
A day after tens of thousands of people gathered in protests against Lukashenko on Sunday in Belarus, Maria Kolesnikova, an opponent of Lukashenko, was reportedly kidnapped.Read More
The most significant sectors in Turkey that are environmentally destabilising are energy, construction and mining.Read More
Twenty-six-year-old French activist, Pauline Harmange, has just released a book about relations between women and men with the title “Moi les hommes, je les deteste” (“I Hate Men”). The book, which questions whether women have enough reasons to hate men and whether anger towards men could be an emancipatory way of life for women, has […]Read More
An earthquake registering 6.2 occurred in Maluku, Indonesia. The Meteorology, Climate and Geophysics Authority (BMKG) announced that the earthquake took place 198 km southeast of the central Maluku region. It was recorded 193 km below the surface.Read More
Competition over gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean has combined with regional rivalries to fuel dangerous tensions between Turkey and its neighbours in recent months.Read More
