A hydroelectric power project is planned for Zori Stream, which passes between Balbaşı (Herîvê) village in Batman’s (Elih) Sason district and Kayahan (Xweşika) in Diyarbakır’s (Amed) Kulp district in Turkey. The project threatens cultural and natural assets as well as the lives of the people in the region.Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Sudan has decided to pull out of talks on the Grand Renaissance Dam constructed by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile. The Ethiopian project will have adverse consequences for downstream states, Egypt and Sudan.Read More
The death toll in Turkey has risen to 83 since Friday’s (30 October) earthquake in the Aegean Sea. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) announced that 962 people have been injured, with 743 discharged from hospitals and 219 still under treatment.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Poor neighbourhoods in Turkey have often been criminalized and ghettoized. When it comes to Kurdish cities, this marginalization becomes even more extreme, and ‘urban renewal’ can and often does have devastating consequences on the poorest residents.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Successive urban renewal projects in Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) two strategic districts, Sur and Bağlar, might be designed to achieve hidden objectives of the Turkish state. These are the sentiments expressed by a number of urban specialists and residents, who suspect that under the discourse of ‘modernization’ and ‘economic revival’, there […]Read More
Ateş Alpar – Adana, Turkey Workers face difficult conditions in a ten-year-old plastic recycling factory in a small neighbourhood in Adana’s Seyhan district in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast.Read More
Every year, villagers from Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey collect terebinth. Also referred to as the turpentine tree, the harvest season for this tree has begun.Read More
Fires broke out again at three points of Mount Cudi in Turkey. The fires have been spreading after further military operations were launched in the region.Read More
Two suspects have been detained over the forest fires that raged for over two days in southeastern Hatay province in Turkey before being brought under control.Read More
Water channels and a heating system estimated to be 1,800 years old have been found during archaeological excavations in Amida Mound, in the Sur district of Diyarbakır.Read More
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