A Turkish intelligence agent ‘confessed’ his plan to assassinate a Kurdish politician to Austrian authorities.Read More
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HDP calls the Assembly Human Rights Inquiry Commission in Turkey
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) called the Assembly Human Rights Inquiry Commission to an emergency meeting regarding Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut, who were thrown from a helicopter after they were detained by soldiers in Turkey.Read More
The Third Penal Chamber of the İstanbul Regional Court of Justice in Turkey upheld the prison sentences of the journalists who joined the campaign ‘Editors-in-Chief on Watch’ for the newspaper Özgür Gündem which had been shut down by legislative decree in 2016.Read More
Aygül Doku has stated that a comprehensive investigation into the disappearance of her sister Gülistan Doku has not yet been conducted. Gülistan Doku has been missing for 264 days in Tunceli (Dersim), Turkey. Aygül noted that the authorities want to close the investigation file regarding her disappearance.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) sent a committee to the city of Van (Wan) in Turkey after hearing reports that Osman Şibal and Servet Turgut had been subjected to torture after being detained and thrown from a military helicopter.Read More
The award winners of the 27th Musa Anter and Free Press Martyrs Journalism Awards have been announced. Medyanews reporter Seda Taşkın has also been granted the “Jury’s Special Award” with her photograph “The Hasankeyf.”Read More
A child who had been sent to Maltepe Sübyan Prison described what he went through: ”There is a torture room covered with a blue sponge. A few years ago, the guards raped the children there”.Read More
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Dîsa ”once again” Radio Yerevan (Erivan) Kurdish Melodies Reinterpreted with
During the period of the Soviet Union, two hour weekly Kurdish broadcasts began in 1955 on Radio Yerevan (Erivan), based in the capital of Armenia. These broadcasts were heard all over Anatolia and became extremely popular.Read More
In Yakutiye, the central district of Erzurum in Turkey, where half the population is Kurdish, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) municipality did not include the Kurdish language on any billboards even as it used nine other languages to provide Covid-19 precautionary advice.Read More
The Witness Protection Act, a part of the “Law of Police Powers”, entered into force in 2008 in Turkey. Following the act, several people have been imprisoned by the testimonies of secret witnesses. Large numbers of political prisoners have been convicted and held in prisons due to these kinds of testimonies.Read More
