The Swedish Immigration Supreme Court rejected the asylum application of LGBTI activist and Kurdish refugee Ferhat İnam, who requested political asylum in Sweden three years ago, deciding that İnam “should leave the country in two weeks”.Read More
The Turkish state-backed Syrian Turkmen Brigades (Samarkand) kidnapped seven civilians on Sunday in the villages of Kefer, Sefera, and Goran, in the town of Jindirês in Afrin (Efrîn), northern Syria.Read More
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Kurdish artist Tara Mamedova decries racist attack on Kurds in
Kurdish artist Tara Mamedova has claimed that a Kazakh group attacked a Kurdish village in the Dergachi district of Saratova, Russia.Read More
While the coronavirus spreads in Iran, tens of thousands of workers have gone on strike, with Iranian Kurdistan especially affected.Read More
Mehrdad Sepehri was killed during an arrest by police officers after being pepper-sprayed and tasered while tied to a metal pole in the street, triggering outrage in Iran.Read More
Four-year-old Miraç Çiçek travelled to Turkey’s Diyarbakır’s (Amed) Dicle (Pîran) district with his family for a holiday on 31 July. He has been missing since then. No trace of Miraç has been found so far. His family thinks that he was abducted.Read More
Kurdish journalists in Turkey say that online death threats against them are increasing, and that no action is being taken against the anonymous social media accounts behind these messages.Read More
A 20-year-old Syrian refugee, Mohammed Al Halid, sustained a fatal head injury on 20 October from an attack in the Nizip (Bêlqis) district of Gaziantep (Dîlok) in Turkey. He joins a long list of refugees who have been attacked in Turkey.Read More
Seda Taşkın According to the data reported by the Ankara branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) in September 2020, 20 prisoners died in the first nine months of the year. Currently, a large number of ill prisoners are expecting to be released. One of the ill prisoners, Ali Boçnak, died in Patnos L-Type prison on […]Read More
The first hearing of the trial, fiver years after the murder, was held in Diyarbakır under heavy security measures. The court rejected all demands from the Elçi family lawyers, and decided on hearing the defendant police officers through the Audio and Video Information System (SEGBİS).Read More
