As Executive Committee member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Murat Karayılan, accused Germany and Canada of providing drone technology to Turkey, it was revealed – thanks to a written parliamentary question – that the United Kingdom (UK) has been providing military training to countries with serious breaches of human rights, including Turkey. According to […]Read More
The President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Robert Spano, made a key speech at the Justice Academy of Turkey. Spano was visiting Turkey for the first time and made a presentation at the ’24th Term Training of Prospective Judges and Prosecutors’ session. The title of his speech was “Judicial Independence – The […]Read More
The author, academic and activist David Graeber has died, aged 59. “I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such. I see anarchism as something you do, not an identity, so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist”, he noted. His wife, the artist and writer Nika Dubrovsky, announced on Twitter that Graeber had died in […]Read More
Mohamed Abdullah and Fatma Sayed CAIRO – The coronavirus is reportedly spreading quickly in areas controlled by the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. This raises questions about the role Turkey might be playing in these areas. Some people are accusing Ankara of staging biological warfare against the Libyan people by allowing Syrian […]Read More
The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council co-chair, Besê Hozat, in an interview on Sterk TV, called the meetings in Geneva to discuss Syria as staged “theatre”, and criticized the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and United States (US) government. She appealed to the Rojava administration to prepare for ‘the great war’.Read More
The Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) and the People’s Will Party reached agreement in Moscow on a political solution in Syria. MSD Executive Committee co-chair, İlham Ehmed, and MSD Egypt representative, Sihanok Dibo, highlighted the importance and significance of the agreement.Read More
Ertuğrul Kürkçü, honorary chair of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has written a piece on Covid-19 and the capitalist system.Read More
Following the Court of Cassation’s decision to release him, Aytaç Ünsal left hospital on a stretcher and said: “We will win!”Read More
Turkey’s inflation rate for August was 11.77% in relation to consumer prices, reported Turkey’s Statistical Institute (TÜİK). It was 11.76% in July.Read More
The influence of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) coalition on Turkish nationalists living in Europe has been profound. Attacks by nationalist Turks on Kurds and socialists took place on 27 and 28 June in Vienna. Organised attacks by ‘Grey Wolves’ (Bozkurt) in especially German speaking countries continue.Read More