The İstanbul Planning Agency Vision 2050 Office, a part of the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB), has completed its urban analysis report for the city. It concludes that 70% of Istanbul’s population lives in earthquake zones.Read More
Research carried out by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in forty-one countries, including Turkey, has revealed that many children in these countries experience poverty, a lack of education, obesity and mental-illness. More than one in ten young people, it found, were still not receiving an education or work experience in Turkey.Read More
The Ministry of Health in Turkey has announced 1,596 new cases of coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours. The total number of recorded cases in the country has reached 273,301.Read More
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC’s) experts made a statement concerning the death of lawyer Ebru Timtik on 2 September. The experts called on Turkey to launch an effective investigation into Timtik’s death and to release other human rights defenders.Read More
Three people who attacked the Workers’ Party of Turkey’s (TİP’s) MP and deputy president, Barış Atay, were arrested on 2 September, after they finished their interviews with the authorities.Read More
Mazlum Abdi, the General Commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), made a statement regarding the ongoing situation in Rojava and Syria. Abdi stated that the issues of the region can be solved through dialogue and negotiation.Read More
by Hicran Urun (translated by Yeni Yasam) The border between Iran and Turkey is 560 km (348 miles) long. It had been established in 1639 by the Qasr-e Shirin Treaty. Kurds have been divided between this border. They sometimes pay with their lives travelling across this border.Read More
Mehmet Masum Süer, an international photographer, has photographed Diyarbakır’s long-eared hedgehogs (Hemiechinus auritus) which are on the brink of extinction. Süer photographed the long-eared hedgehogs (Hemiechinus auritus) alongside red foxes, hawks, snakes and various species of butterfly in Hevsel Gardens, which is placed in UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage list. Hevsel Gardens is located in Diyarbakır […]Read More
Serhat – Rojava As several countries have decided to re-apply preventative and protective measures to face the anticipated ‘second wave’ of COVID-19, Rojava’s self-administration declared a new general quarantine since the beginning of August.Read More
Serhat – Rojava Ciwan Mustafa is the co-chair of the Health Department in northern and eastern Syria. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infection that reportedly can be diagnosed using a test called ‘polymerase chain reaction’ (PCR). Mustafa noted that 1,200 PCR tests have been conducted to date. Of those, 425 were found to be […]Read More
