“World Kobanê Day” begins on 1 November to remember the resistance of the Kobanê people against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in 2014.Read More
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who remains imprisoned under isolation conditions in İmralı High Security F-Type Closed Prison in Turkey, was banned from meeting his lawyers for six months from 23 September. It was also revealed that Öcalan was banned from making calls for six months.Read More
Every year, villagers from Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey collect terebinth. Also referred to as the turpentine tree, the harvest season for this tree has begun.Read More
Dilek Doğan was shot during a police raid on her house in the Küçükarmutlu district of İstanbul on 18 October 2015, and lost her life a week later in an intensive care unit.Read More
Mineworkers launched a protest to address their unpaid salaries and rights to indemnity on 12 October, in the Soma district of Manisa city, Turkey.Read More
The Peace Mothers Fatma Akbaş, Hadiye Oğur, Adalet Çay and Meyaser Korkmaz were detained after a house raid in the city of Şanlıurfa (Riha) in Turkey on 6 October.Read More
Hüseyin Acar (69), who lives in the Turgut Reis district of Bodrum, has been making baskets with the branches he collects from the forest every morning for more than 50 years.Read More
The border gates in Van (Wan) have been closed since March 2020. The gates were first closed due to the coronavirus restrictions. However, despite the normalisation process, Turkey has not yet re-opened the gates. With no visitors, tourism in the city is dying.Read More
Celebrations marking the eighth anniversary of the foundation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey have continued. Thousands gathered to celebrate at the Bostancı Performance Centre in İstanbul, where HDP Co-Chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar attended and spoke.Read More
Ajlan Al Ajlan, the Chair of Saudi Arabia’s Chamber of Commerce, called for a boycott of Turkish products last week. The boycott campaign has been spreading.Read More
