Democratic Party presidental nominee, Joe Biden’s, comments on Turkey and President Erdoğan have become top tweet in Turkey. Biden says on video that he is very concerned about Erdoğan’s approach to the Kurds.Read More
A 35-year-old women was left injured after a shark attack at Port Macquarie in Australia.Read More
Turkey was the first country to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (popularly referred to as the ‘Istanbul Convention’). It aims to prevent violence, provide victim protection and to end the impunity of perpetratorsRead More
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has implemented war policies to address the Kurdish issue, ever since it pulled out of the peace negotiations with the Kurds (which took place between 2014 – 2015).Read More
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s Foreign Minister, issued the following statement at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis in Switzerland.Read More
The dollar rate has been steadily increasing for the past five years. The Dollar/Turkish Lira (TL) parity was only 1.90 in 2013. This Friday morning, it reached 7.38 for the first time ever, crossing the psychological threshold.Read More
The Turkish state continues to use forest fires to bring about ecological destruction in the Kurdistan region of Turkey. This week, fire has started in the Lice district of Diyarbakır (Amed). While the cause of the fire could not be confirmed, it has spread from the forest area to settlements, vineyards and gardens. Residents have […]Read More
This March, a team of dedicated volunteers was getting ready to launch the 11th London Kurdish Film Festival, scheduled for the following month. Venues had been booked and hotel accommodation arranged, when, as with every other gathering and performance, lockdown brought all plans to an abrupt stop. No-one should dismiss the horror of this pandemic, […]Read More
İşo Maroge Mesud is a 100 year old Assyrian, whose eight uncles were murdered by Ottoman troops during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. Survivors from his family settled in Til Cihan village in the Tirbespiyê district of Qamişlo. İşo states that the Turkish state has continued the massacre and genocide related policies of […]Read More
Gültan Kışanak Gültan Kışanak is a political prisoner, a journalist, and a former MP and co-mayor of Amed/Diyarbakir. With fellow political prisoners, she wrote a book ‘The Colour Purple of Kurdish Politics’, which looks at the role of women within political parties.Read More
