The renowned foreign correspondent and author Robert Fisk has died at the age of 74. It has been reported that the journalist became unwell at his home in Dublin and later died in St Vincent’s hospital. Born in the English county of Kent in 1946, Fisk later moved to Ireland and eventually became an Irish […]Read More
The Kurdish poet and writer Celal Melekşa has died at the age of 69.Read More
The Hrant Dink Foundation has published its ‘Hate Speech and Discriminatory Discourse in Media 2019 Report‘. According to the report, 4,364 news stories and columns containing hate speech against different religious, ethnic, and national groups were reported in 2019. In total, 5,515 hate speech items in these stories and columns were directed against 80 different […]Read More
The Swedish Immigration Supreme Court rejected the asylum application of LGBTI activist and Kurdish refugee Ferhat İnam, who requested political asylum in Sweden three years ago, deciding that İnam “should leave the country in two weeks”.Read More
Whilst tensions have continued to increase between Turkey and France regarding the murder of a French teacher, there have been protests against France in Turkey and in Turkish controlled regions in Syria.Read More
Kurdish artist Tara Mamedova has claimed that a Kazakh group attacked a Kurdish village in the Dergachi district of Saratova, Russia.Read More
The first Women’s Folklore Festival took place in Raqqa on Sunday with the slogan “Our traditions are enlivened by diverse communities”.Read More
Four-year-old Miraç Çiçek travelled to Turkey’s Diyarbakır’s (Amed) Dicle (Pîran) district with his family for a holiday on 31 July. He has been missing since then. No trace of Miraç has been found so far. His family thinks that he was abducted.Read More
Kurdish journalists in Turkey say that online death threats against them are increasing, and that no action is being taken against the anonymous social media accounts behind these messages.Read More
Multiple journalists are on trial in Istanbul courts on what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called “baseless and harrassing charges”.Read More
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