Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan It was a normal day for Payman, Kawa and their two children, working at their market in the Kuna Masy resort of South Kurdistan, Sulaymaniyah — when suddenly their shop was devastated by a Turkish bomb.Read More
Seda Taşkın According to the data reported by the Ankara branch of Human Rights Association (İHD) in September 2020, 20 prisoners died in the first nine months of the year. Currently, a large number of ill prisoners are expecting to be released. One of the ill prisoners, Ali Boçnak, died in Patnos L-Type prison on […]Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır The Ak family is one of the families that has not left Diyarbakır’s war-shattered district of Sur in Turkey since the curfews and conflicts that began in 2015. Living homeless for five years now, Mehmet Ak said: “Erdoğan bombed, destroyed and took our home. We have been living on the […]Read More
Ateş Alpar – Adana, Turkey Workers face difficult conditions in a ten-year-old plastic recycling factory in a small neighbourhood in Adana’s Seyhan district in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast.Read More
MedyaNews Exclusive by Fréderike Geerdink There are twenty one cases of Covid-19 at present in Makhmur camp, the refugee camp in Iraq where Kurds who had fled from state violence in the southeast of Turkey during the 1990’s now live. Five people are in a serious condition.Read More
Walaa Abu Steit – Cairo Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli (left) inspecting one of the newly discovered wooden sarcophagi in Saqqara.Read More
EDITORS' PICKS
HUMAN RIGHTS
KURDISTAN
SPECIAL REPORTS
Concerns rise over the detention of Sherwan Sherwani in South
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan On 7 October, police forces attacked Sherwan Sherwani’s house in Sebrian, a village near Erbil in South Kurdistan. They arrested him in front of his wife and three children.Read More
Walaa Abu Steit – Cairo A former Egyptian government official has accused Turkey of adopting what he described as “fascist” policies, calling on the international community to take firm action against Ankara for its blatant interference in the affairs of the counties of the Middle East region.Read More
Hani al-Gamal – Cairo The Egyptian Senate (the upper chamber of the Egyptian parliament) has convened for the first time since 2013. The Senate was cancelled in 2014, but was reinstituted by a package of constitutional amendments that were approved in 2019. The inaugural session of the Senate witnessed the election of its speaker and […]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
