Turkey is at a transition point for thousands of refugees and migrants. Many try to reach Europe by passing through Turkey. They mostly enter Turkey from eastern borders and they first try to reach İstanbul in order to enter European countries.Read More
Two protestors lost their lives during the protests that broke out in several cities in response to the economical crisis and unpaid salaries in Iraqi Kurdistan.Read More
Ali Eymen is two-and-a-half years old and suffers with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a deadly disease that severely limits his movement. Eymen has been connected to a machine for nine months, and needs gene therapy to recover. His family has asked for help from authorities and citizens and has now started an aid campaign for […]Read More
One million migrants are deprived of humanitarian aid
The Al Yarubiyah (Tıl Koçer) border gate, a crossing point along the Syrian-Iraqi border, was closed due to Russia’s veto in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) causing more than one million migrants in Northern and Eastern Syria to be deprived of humanitarian aid.Read More
It has been revealed that a village guard’s gun was used in the killing of a father and his daughter in the Çermik district of Diyarbakır (Amed).Read More
Turkish-backed mercenaries continue the looting and smuggling of ancient artifacts in Afrin. The Afrin Historical Sites Directorate had previously announced that the Turkish-backed mercenaries have been smuggling the historical artifacts excavated from thirteen mounds in Afrin.Read More
Protests over controversial reburials in Kilyos, Turkey
On 19 December 2017, authorities demolished Garzan Cemetery in the Bedlîs Oleka Jor district in the eastern province of Kurdish-majority populated Bitlis in Turkey and removed 282 bodies without informing their families about this.Read More
Former DBP co-chair participates in hunger strike action in prison
As hunger strikes continue in the prisons of Turkey, imprisoned former Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Sebahat Tuncel made a decision to participate in the hunger strikes launched to protest against the isolation imposed upon Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan.Read More
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) General Commander Mazlum Abdi was interviewed on Ronahî TV and he commented on the current situation in Syria, the tensions that have arisen between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the future of Sinjar.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) issued a counter-statement regarding the Turkish government’s 2021 budget plans. According to the HDP’s statement, published in Gazete Karınca, the share of the budget that will reportedly be approved for the Ministry of National Security in Turkey will be increased, even as it will have a resultant negative impact on […]Read More