Hakkâri (Colemerg) is a province in Turkey with picturesque mountains, countryside and sources of natural spring water. Güldalı (Bilindbasan) village in Yüksekova (Gever) district is located in this province. People earn their livelihoods through animal husbandry.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraq A survey conducted by a group of academics in KR-I shows that 81% of youth in Kurdistan would be willing to flee abroad to escape poor job prospects, corruption and injustice.Read More
Thousands of villages and settlements in Turkey were dismantled during the clashes of the early 1990s.Read More
Fréderike Geerdink On the morning of 3 December 1994, Yakut Yılmaz let himself down onto the red tiled pavement, right in front of the distribution office of daily paper Özgür Ülke in Diyarbakır. He was just informed that the offices of the paper in Ankara and Istanbul had been bombed to smithereens. He had been […]Read More
The Sur district of Diyarbakır (Amed) in Turkey forms an essential part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Read More
Medyanews Exclusive Abdullah Öcalan’s isolation and Kurdish society’s struggle for democratic rights are key concerns that need to be addressed in order to achieve democratisation in Turkey.Read More
As the Covid-19 death toll and case numbers increase in Turkey, a hospital in Diyarbakır (Amed) refused to test seventy workers for Covid-19 who were displaying symptoms.Read More
The historic settlement of Hasankeyf, located in the Batman Province in southeastern Turkey, was submerged once the Ilısu Dam became operational in early July.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) sent a committee to the city of Van (Wan) in Turkey after hearing reports that Osman Şibal and Servet Turgut had been subjected to torture after being detained and thrown from a military helicopter.Read More
Turkey launched significant attacks after 17 June against regions in northern Iraq where the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK’s) forces were located.Read More
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