Prisoners in Turkey started a five-day alternating hunger strike on 27 November to protest the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and mistreatments in Turkish prisons. The strike, which started with the participation of many prisoners across several different prisons, was taken over by a third group on 7 December.Read More
On 19 December 2017, authorities demolished Garzan Cemetery in the Bedlîs Oleka Jor district in the eastern province of Kurdish-majority populated Bitlis in Turkey and removed 282 bodies without informing their families about this.Read More
Nineteen people, including Istanbul’s Şişli Deputy Mayor Cihan Yavuz, were detained during house raids in Istanbul on 26 November. Those detained included activists, politicians and journalists.Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo History runs as quick as a flash inside Seydê Rachid Dîkê’s mind. A native of the northern Syrian city of Afrin in his early sixties, Dîkê remembers the times he spent in Afrin and other parts of Syria before he settled permanently in Egypt.Read More
Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) co-chair İdil Uğurlu commented on Turkey’s domestic political agenda. Uğurlu said that the supression of society was not seperated from the isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan on Imrali Island.Read More
Prisoners who are on hunger strike in Eskişehir Prison have been subjected to mistreatment, with their wards being raided three times a day, it has been revealed.Read More
by Fayik Yağızay Although it might appear that international institutions and global powers act according to principles, values, standards and conventions, we can see that their actions are based simply on their own interests. Almost every day, we witness how principles and values are trampled upon in the face of these interests.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) issued a counter-statement regarding the Turkish government’s 2021 budget plans. According to the HDP’s statement, published in Gazete Karınca, the share of the budget that will reportedly be approved for the Ministry of National Security in Turkey will be increased, even as it will have a resultant negative impact on […]Read More
Medyanews Exclusive The concept of terrorism is often discussed on the international community’s political agenda yet it is highly controversial and has a big problem with a common definition of the term. In this context, the main issue in defining terrorism is based on interpretation. (1) The relationship between self-determination and terrorism is a controversial […]Read More
Despite the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution, which calls on all parties of conflicts to take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, in situations of armed conflict, the women, whose lives have been turned into a living hell in Kurdistan have never […]Read More
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