The hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey to protest against the prison isolation conditions of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan as well as the violations of rights that are taking place inside prisons in the country has reached its 32th day. The seventh group of prisoners have begun their hunger strikes.Read More
On 28 December 2011, thirty four villagers, nineteen of them children, lost their lives as a result of being bombed by warplanes of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) near the village of Roboski in Şırnak (Şırnex), Uludere district.Read More
International campaigns have been launched to end the prison isolation conditions in Turkey of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. After 21 years of isolation at İmralı, prisoners in Turkey have also recently initiated a hunger strike to demand an end to Öcalan’s isolation. Erdoğan Alayumat, a journalist from Mesopotamia Agency (MA), has assessed aspects of this […]Read More
On 28 December 2011, thirty four civilians, nineteen of them children, died as a result of the bombardment by warplanes of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in the village of Roboski in Şırnak (Şırnex), Uludere district, in Turkey.Read More
Children in Ain Issa (Eyn İsa) wake up to the sounds of bombs and artillery fire and are losing their rights by the day, according to an account by Hawar News.Read More
The ‘Bill on Preventing the Spread and Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction’ was approved by the General Assembly of the Turkish parliament on 26 December.Read More
The hunger strike launched by political prisoners in Turkey to protest both the isolation imposed on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and the violations of rights inside prisons has reached its 30th day with the participation of a sixth group of prisoners.Read More
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Grand Chamber decided that former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş was to be released immediately on 22 December. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ignored the decision and said, “The decision is not our concern”, leading to angry reactions across Turkey.Read More
Turkish fighter jets bombed 34 villagers in the Uludere (Roboski) district of Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey on 28 December 2011. Villagers, including children, were carrying fuel, tea and sugar to the other side of the border. Some accused villagers of smuggling to legitimise the murders. Cases filed in military and civil courts were subsequently dropped […]Read More
The fifth hearing of the case regarding the assaults and killings of four members of the Şenyaşar family, carried out by AKP deputy İbrahim Halil Yıldız’s guards and relatives during an election campaign in the Suruç (Pirsus) district of Şanlıurfa (Riha) in Turkey on 14 June 2018, was tried in the Malatya Third High Penal […]Read More
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