During their 821st week of actions, the Saturday Mothers demanded to know the fate of the lawyer Faik Candan, who was murdered in 1994. “Kurdish blood is on the state’s hands”, they said. “The Turkish state’s eyes are blind and its ears are deaf”.Read More
Twenty years have passed since the “Return to Life” operation was carried out simultaneously in 20 different Turkish prisons. On 19 December 2000, hundreds of soldiers and police took part in the attacks against hundreds of prisoners who were on hunger strike to protest the transition to F-type prisons. A total of 32 detainees and […]Read More
As hunger strikes continue amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa (Riha) Prison, the prison administration is not testing prisoners for the virus despite increasing case numbers.Read More
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has denied the harassment and strip-searching of 30 university students, while an investigation into the matter was launched by Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu. The HDP Women’s Assembly reacted against AKP statements which denied the incidents.Read More
Mesopotamia News Agency reporters Zeynep Durgut and Azad Kaya, and JinNews reporters Rojda Aydın and Derya Ren were detained in Cizre, a district of Şırnak (Şirnex) when returning from a news report they were covering in Şırnak.Read More
Racists attacked the funeral of People’s Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Aysel Tuğluk’s mother’s on 13 September 2017 in Ankara, Turkey.Read More
Deputy Director of the Central Anatolian High School in Cizre sent sexual messages to more than 30 students and commited serious sexual assault.Read More
Kurdish political prisoners of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), in over 121 prisons in Turkey, are on Day 21 of their indefinite hunger strikes to break the isolation of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.Read More
Behiye Baki is a Kurdish dengbêj (folk singer) who was detained and sentenced to life in prison in Turkey for the alleged charge of “being a member of an organization” in 2017. The court’s decision was based sorely on witness statements, with no other evidence being presented against her.Read More
Diyarbakır Bar Association’s Prison Monitoring Commission has published a report on the violations of rights that are taking place in Elazığ (Xerpet) High-Security Closed Penal Institution No.1 and No.2, Elazığ T-Type Closed Penal Institution, Elazığ E-Type Closed Penal Institution, and Elazığ Women’s Closed Penal Institution in Turkey.Read More
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