The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria’s (AANES) Humanitarian Affairs Bureau has published a written statement urging the United Nations and the international community to stop Turkey’s latest attacks on Ayn Issa.Read More
Since 18 January 2018 more than 200 women have been kidnapped in the Afrin (Efrin) region of North East Syria.Read More
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesperson Kino Gabriel has said that Turkey and Turkish-backed groups aimed to take over new areas with their attacks on Ain Issa. Gabriel denied the claim that the city would be handed over to the Syrian regime.Read More
People of Kurdistan and their allies took to the streets in Europe to protest the isolation of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan. They also called for the demands of the political prisoners who are on a hunger strike to be met.Read More
During their 821st week of actions, the Saturday Mothers demanded to know the fate of the lawyer Faik Candan, who was murdered in 1994. “Kurdish blood is on the state’s hands”, they said. “The Turkish state’s eyes are blind and its ears are deaf”.Read More
Nurhak Kılagöz, an artist from the Mesopotamia Culture Centre (MKM), has released an instrumental song named “Dayika Taybet” to commemorate the death of Taybet İnan, who was murdered during curfews declared in the Silopi district of Şırnak (Şirnex) in 2015 and whose body was left on the street for seven days.Read More
Twenty years have passed since the “Return to Life” operation was carried out simultaneously in 20 different Turkish prisons. On 19 December 2000, hundreds of soldiers and police took part in the attacks against hundreds of prisoners who were on hunger strike to protest the transition to F-type prisons. A total of 32 detainees and […]Read More
As hunger strikes continue amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa (Riha) Prison, the prison administration is not testing prisoners for the virus despite increasing case numbers.Read More
Speaking at the commemoration event for the 42nd anniversary of the Maraş Massacre, Democratic Alevi Association (DAD), Ankara Branch member Pınar Alpay said, “Undoubtedly, it is important not to lose our social memory and not to forget about these massacres”.Read More
Democratic Union Party co-presidency council member Saleh Moslem commented on the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) attacks in Amediye and the latest situation in Iraqi Kurdistan.Read More
