The trial of the ‘Kızıltepe JITEM’ ended in a decision of the court to acquit all the suspects of murder charges in the case regarding the execution of twenty-two people between 1992 and 1996 in the southeastern province of Mardin in Turkey.Read More
In Yakutiye, the central district of Erzurum in Turkey, where half the population is Kurdish, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) municipality did not include the Kurdish language on any billboards even as it used nine other languages to provide Covid-19 precautionary advice.Read More
Fırat Sözeri, who had been interviewed recently by Medyanews about the ban on PhD’s being written in the Kurdish language in Turkey, stated that he was threatened by people who called themselves “nationalists”.Read More
Thirty three political prisoners in Diyarbakır ‘D-Type’ prison in Turkey were transferred to ‘F-Type High Security Closed’ prisons.Read More
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır (Amed) deputy İmam Taşçıer has presented a law proposal to parliament to make Kurdish (Kurmanji-Zazaki) a language of education.Read More
There have been several marches in support of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in Rojava over the past few days, calling for his release. One took place on 12 September and another on 15 September.Read More
Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, imprisoned in Edirne Prison in Turkey, has spoken to the Financial Times (FT) about the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).Read More
A ‘Writers of the Future’ competition has been organised by the Cizre Region Culture and Arts Committee and the Rojava Literature Committee. Sixty children are participating in the competition.Read More
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has just announced its ruling regarding the application it received from journalist and writer-publisher Ragıp Zarakolu, regarding a lawsuit that had been filed against him in Turkey accusing him of “being a member of an organization”. In its decision, ECHR ruled that Articles 5 and 10 of the […]Read More
Eymen Hammamı, a sixteen-year-old Syrian refugee working in a bakery in the Vezirköprü district of Samsun in Turkey, was murdered in a knife-assault on the evening of 13 September.Read More
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