As the trustee policy continues in Turkey, a new scandal related to Mardin’s (Merdîn) metropolitan municipality has been revealed. A report prepared by civil inspectors revealed the crimes of Zeyni Teker, one of the key colleagues of the municipality’s trustee, Mustafa Yaman.Read More
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused 1.7 million people to die since it began to spread in January.Read More
A new legislative proposal named, Preventing the Financing of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which includes 43 articles, was approved in the Justice Commission of the Turkish parliament. As the proposal is expected to be discussed in the General Assembly of the parliament in the coming days, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Republican Peoples’ Party […]Read More
Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chair Leyla Güven was sentenced to 22 years and three months in prison for her statements against the attacks on Afrin and her activities as part of the DTK. Güven has now been taken into custody in Diyarbakır (Amed), Turkey, the Mesopotamia News Agency reports.Read More
Mesopotamia Agency (MA) reporter Zeynep Durgut has reportedly been released on bail.Read More
Hessin Erkol, came to Diyarbakır (Amed) from Van (Wan) for the seventh time to retrieve the body of his daughter, Mercan Erkol, who lost her life in a conflict in 2017 and whose remains have still not been delivered to the family. All attempts of Mercan Erkol’s father have been inconclusive, being answered by the […]Read More
Hunger strikes by political prisoners in Turkey are taking place in protest against the prison isolation conditions of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and the human rights violations that are taking place in Turkey’s prisons. Prisoners began their hunger strike on 27 November 2020 and continue to organise the hunger strikes on a […]Read More
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Kocaeli deputy and member of the Parliamentary Human Rights Inquiry Commission, Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, was targeted by Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputies after he brought up the topic of invasive “strip-searching”, which has been applied in police stations and prisons across Turkey.Read More
Political prisoner Yusuf Bor lost his sight during his incarceration in the Van (Wan) T-type prison in Turkey. He had no problem with his eyes before he was arrested and he was not provided with proper treatment when his eyesight deteriorated.Read More
Since 18 January 2018 more than 200 women have been kidnapped in the Afrin (Efrin) region of North East Syria.Read More
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