Eylül Deniz Yaşar Not all actors able to stay at their ‘luxury’ homes, striving artists remind ANKARA – As screens and stages everywhere have been hit hard by the corona virus lockdown, the lack of state funding and support—which has already crippled the art industry in Turkey— has doubled the strength of the blow, Kurdish […]Read More
Words by Uğur Deniz The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has noted in its most recent report that forest fires can often become “a crisis that is out of control”. In the Kurdish provinces of Turkey, many forest fires appear to have reached this stage of “crisis”. We spoke to Agit Özdemir of the Mesopotomia […]Read More
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Manisa deputy, Tamer Akkal, publicly insulted former-Peoples’ Democratic Party co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş and his family on his social media account. He made jokes about the fact that Demirtaş was not allowed to meet with his children in prison. He called Demirtaş a ‘son of a bitch’. However, after the […]Read More
Representatives of Alevi organizations have expressed their opposition to the ‘Landscape Design Project’ that is being undertaken in Munzur Gözeleri in Dersim, Turkey. After a protest meeting, they shared aşure in Munzur (it is a food that is shared amongst those gathered and the act can assume religious significance).Read More
Translated from ÖzgürPolitika News, written by Meral Çiçek Joey Hood, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs in the US Department of State, asked Hewler, Baghdad and Ankara to work together “under the consultancy of the US”. In this way, the US not only justified Turkish air strikes and intervention in Shengal, but […]Read More
On World Peace Day, 1 September, Britain’s Alevi Federation, Democratic Power Union and the Workers’ Party of Turkey (TİP – British section) issued a joint press statement.Read More
According to Gazete Duvar, the mining license of the Truva Copper Enterprise, which was acquired by Cengiz Holding in 2019, allows it to operate in an area that includes three villages.Read More
Gazel Bulut is currently imprisoned in ‘Kandıra No. 1 F-Type Prison’. She has not been allowed to see her four-year-old daughter for the past six months. She wrote an open letter calling for public awareness about the violations of prisoners’ rights in prisons in Turkey, particularly those of imprisoned mothers.Read More
Well known public intellectuals Baskın Oran, Melek Ulagay, Orhan Alkaya and Gençay Gürsoy appealed for peace in Turkey on the occasion of ‘World Peace Day’ (1 September). They stated that there was a need to unite against the war.Read More
Aytaç Ünsal, a 31-year-old lawyer, has been on a death fast for two hundred and eleven days. Ünsal’s demand is for a fair trial. He had been charged with membership of a ‘terrorist’ organisation, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party (DHKP-C), along with eighteen lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers Organization (ÇHD).Read More
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