According to the latest reports, 26 people were killed and 800 injured in the earthquake that struck İzmir city in Turkey on Friday. In the early hours of Saturday there were aftershocks measuring 5.0 in magnitude. As rescue operations continue, 100 people have been saved from the wreckages.Read More
Saturday Mothers gathered for the first time in 1995 to reveal the fates of their missing relatives in Turkey. Ever since, mothers have come together every Saturday for sit-ins to raise awareness of the disappeared.Read More
The Weeping Rocks, located in Pülümür Valley in the city of Tunceli (Dersim) in Turkey, symbolize the sorrows of residents in the region from past to present.Read More
University student Gülistan Doku (21) has been missing in Turkey’s eastern Tunceli (Dersim) province for 300 days.Read More
Three people was murdered in a knife attack in France, reportedly by Brahim Aioussaoi, a migrant from Tunisia.Read More
Farmers in southeast Turkey complain that agricultural production is no longer economically viable. Many farmers state that they cannot even afford the cost of cultivating cabbages, which were planted in May and gathered in October. “Whatever we plant, our costs are not covered. The price of diesel, fertilizer and water is high”, noted a farmer.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Poor neighbourhoods in Turkey have often been criminalized and ghettoized. When it comes to Kurdish cities, this marginalization becomes even more extreme, and ‘urban renewal’ can and often does have devastating consequences on the poorest residents.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Successive urban renewal projects in Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) two strategic districts, Sur and Bağlar, might be designed to achieve hidden objectives of the Turkish state. These are the sentiments expressed by a number of urban specialists and residents, who suspect that under the discourse of ‘modernization’ and ‘economic revival’, there […]Read More
by Seda Taşkın Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that medical staff in both public and private institutions will not be allowed to quit their jobs during the coronavirus outbreak. It was also stated that retirement procedures will not take effect during this period as well. The only exceptions are for those who are forced […]Read More
Humanitarian and civil rights organizations based in Kurdistan and Europe have appealed to international society to break the silence and take action to save more than 400 women who have been kidnapped in Afrin.Read More
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