Translated from Gazete Karınca Several attacks have occured in the recent past regarding people who have been subjected to assault and/or murder due to their ethnic identities in Turkey. The deaths of a Kurdish construction worker in Afyon and a Syrian refugee in Samsun are the most recent examples of such attacks. Cuma Daş states […]Read More
Translated from Yeni Yaşam Child labour in Turkey continues to be both an international and domestic concern in the country. Despite efforts to establish policies to eradicate child labour and protect the interests of children, child labour problems persist.Read More
Hacer Yiğit makes a living by baking large thin flatbreads, thanks to the stove she installed in the front of her house. Yiğit lives in Yafes street of Cizre district in the city of Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey. Though townspeople consume mostly village bread, she bakes large thin flatbreads with the stove she installed in […]Read More
Ecology organisations have issued a public statement protesting against the forest fires in Mount Cudi.Read More
On September 12th, 1980, the Turkish military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government, destroying political and cultural institutions across society.Read More
Gültan Kışanak was imprisoned when she was a student after the military coup in 1980, 40 years after than she is in prison again.Read More
by Meghan Bodette – USA In August, Democratic nominee for President of the United States Joe Biden chose California Senator Kamala Harris as his nominee for Vice President.Read More
According to the North Press Agency, artists in Kobani launched a talent show on social media a month ago. It is similar to other singing competitions such as “The Voice Kids” and “Kurdistan’s Kids Voice”.Read More
Selahattin Erdem’s report from Yeni Özgür Politika It isn’t exactly clear how the Macron administration in France will oppose the current policies of the Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (AKP-MHP) coalition government in Turkey.Read More
Thirty eight years have passed since the July 1982 death fasts that were undertaken in prisons in Turkey to protest against the 12 September 1980 military coup and the dehumanising conditions of Diyarbakir prison. The death fasts were led by Kemal Pir, Hayri Durmuş, Ali Çiçek and Akif Yılmaz, founding members of the Kurdistan Workers’ […]Read More
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