Eight people who were arrested during the curfews declared in Derik district of Mardin (Mêrdîn) in Turkey in November and December 2015 were sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment.Read More
Dilan Cruz was a Colombian student who had been injured by police and lost his life when he took part in a protest for better education in Colombia a year ago. Hundreds of people marched in Bogotá to mark the anniversary of his death.Read More
A lawsuit was filed against the Saturday Mothers and their supporters on the grounds of incidents that occurred during the Saturday Mothers’ 700th protest action in Istanbul, Turkey.Read More
Police raided the Mesopotamia News Agency (MA) office in Van (Wan), seized computers and hard drives, and detained the journalist Dindar Karataş, according to reports.Read More
Turkey launched a military operation in the Efrin region of North East Syria in January 2018 and occupied the region according to Hawar News. The region has been under Turkish state rule since then. Many civilians in the region have reportedly been subjected to severe mistreatment and acts of barbarism by the mercenaries of Turkey.Read More
by Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Kurdish journalist Aziz Oruç, who has been recently released from prison in Turkey after 11 months, shared his story concerning the perilous journey he made across three countries. It took him almost three years to reunite with his wife and children again.Read More
Zeycan Yedigöl, one of the Saturday Mothers, who had been looking for her missing son Nurettin for 39 years, died aged 98, before she could find him.Read More
Fadıl Şenyaşar faces a sentence of 150 years in prison in Turkey whilst Enver Yıldız faces a 12-year prison sentence. Fadil’s mother Emine Şenyaşar said: ”Was it only one person that killed my family? There is no justice. The cruelty continues”.Read More
Nuray Çevirmen, a member of the Women’s Commission, has said that applications regarding economic and social rights have increased during the coronavirus pandemic.Read More
After the arrest of four journalists who revealed that two villagers were thrown from a military helicopter in Van (Wan), press suppression has escalated in Turkey, with increasingly brazen attempts to silence news organisations.Read More
