The first trial hearing of Special Sergeant Musa Orhan, who is accused of raping İpek Er, took place at Siirt 1st High Penal Court on 16 September.Read More
Fréderike Geerdink In the spring of 2017, amid rising tensions between several armed groups in the Şengal region of Northwestern Iraq, a young woman died. Hundreds of people came to offer their condolences to the family of the woman. Some of those in the women’s tent looked not just sad, but also exhausted and hopeless. […]Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Raparin Children’s Teaching Hospital is located in Erbil, Iraq. Until now, it has been a public hospital that was built on public land, funded by taxpayers.Read More
HPG Commander Egid Civyan was commemorated in Northern Kurdistan, Makhmur and Sinjar.Read More
Medyanews Exclusive The camps and prisons that ISIS fighters and their families stay in are located across Syria’s northeast. The situation of these prisoners is the subject of heated debate. However, as several countries have not taken enough responsibility for the situation, the future status of these prisoners is still unclear.Read More
Twenty two people, including disabled and elderly people, were detained during raids in the centre of Hakkari (Colemerg) and in Cevizli village in Çukurca district in Turkey.Read More
An ambitious and innovative concert programme – “Voice of the Past; Amida Concerts” – is being organized in Turkey by Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DTSO).Read More
The Kurdish-language play “Bêrû: Klakson, Borîzan û Birt” was included in the October programme of the İstanbul Municipality City Theatre. Due to be staged by Teatra Jiyana Nû (New Life Theatre), it was banned on the grounds that it could “disturb the general public order”.Read More
The trustee of Kars Municipality in Turkey has ended the agreement of the municipality to support Kars Municipality Employers’ Cooperative, which had been established to promote the sales and marketing of the city’s agricultural products throughout the country.Read More
Sinjar, where Yazidis live, is a district in the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan). Sinjar was attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in August 2014. Although the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had announced that its peshmerga forces would protect the Yazidis living there, the peshmerga withdrew from the […]Read More
