Savan Abdulrahman – IRAQ The Children’s Hospital in Erbil is the first modern hospital in south Kurdistan that was built and designed specifically for children. The hospital was intended to be a public hospital and was built with charity and public funds. It cost millions of dollars to build. The hospital was named the Kurdistan’s […]Read More
Kars municipality has acted to assist women during the pandemic. Kars Municipality Co-mayor, Şevin Alaca, confirmed that violence against women has increased in the city, especially during the lockdown. She added that there is an intense demand from women for the municipal services of the Women’s Solidarity Centre.Read More
Written by Uğur Deniz Türeli, Araz, Özçalımlı … Their deaths are the recent ones. Suspicious deaths of soldiers have continued with regularity since the 1990’s. Often, those deaths are officially stated to be either “suicide”, “friendly fire” or “training casualties”. But is this really the case? Unshared data, contradictions and the truth are proof that […]Read More
We talked to Ayhan Bilgen, Kars Municipality Co-mayor and former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) spokesperson about the activities of Kars Municipality. Seda Taşkın Kars Municipality is one of the first municipalities that comes to mind when we talk about examplary municipalism in Turkey. Can you comment? Before the election, we roughly knew what kind of […]Read More
Savan Abdalrahman – South Kurdistan On Monday Which marks the 10th of August, Xazalnus publishing house and bookstore in south Kurdistan published a book that holds 11 years of Political, financial and social Documents and efforts that political figures in Rojava declared and announced for so long in order to achieve an autonomous Administration.Read More
Uğur Deniz / Istanbul The days of the ‘coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic’ have led to permanent changes in education and training. One of these changes is distance or e-learning.Read More
Death-fast lawyers ‘under threat’ in hospital, human rights defenders warn
Eylül Deniz Yaşar / Istanbul ANKARA – Concerns over two Turkish lawyers who launched a hunger strike demanding a ‘fair trial’ grow after the much-debated decision of a court rejecting their release and ordering their hospitalization. Human rights defenders believe this is a threat of ‘forced medical intervention’.Read More
Electronic shackles: Turkey to imprison more political dissidents in their
Ender Zaman / Istanbul Political dissidents will be increasingly imprisoned in their homes using electronic shackles. Turkey is set to begin ‘local’ production of electronic shackles, which are described as one of the new ‘instruments’ of use in the modern penal system. Legalists have noted that this will be a further blow against freedom of […]Read More