The trustee of Kars Municipality in Turkey has ended the agreement of the municipality to support Kars Municipality Employers’ Cooperative, which had been established to promote the sales and marketing of the city’s agricultural products throughout the country.Read More
Sinjar, where Yazidis live, is a district in the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan). Sinjar was attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in August 2014. Although the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had announced that its peshmerga forces would protect the Yazidis living there, the peshmerga withdrew from the […]Read More
The Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan has met with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow for talks on a ceasefire deal over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.Read More
Due to an agreement that was recently reached between the Iraq government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) regarding the future status of Sinjar, the area has taken centre stage in many critical discussions regarding the future safety of Yazidis.Read More
The 12th October will mark one year since Hevrin Xelef, one of the founders of the Syrian Future Party and then Secretary General of the Future Syria party, was murdered when the Turkish state launched a military operation in northern Syria.Read More
Hewrin Xelef was a Kurdish-Syrian politician and served as the Secretary General of the Future Syria Party after working for many years in Rojava in northern Syria. Xelef was killed on 12 October in northern Syria when the Turkish state launched a military operation in the region.Read More
Water channels and a heating system estimated to be 1,800 years old have been found during archaeological excavations in Amida Mound, in the Sur district of Diyarbakır.Read More
A minibus that was carrying agricultural workers overturned in Erdemli district in Mersin, Turkey. Bedriye Kaya, one of the workers, died. Thirty four workers were injured. After the accident, injured workers were transferred to various hospitals in the area by ambulance.Read More
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), who remains imprisoned under isolation conditions in İmralı High Security F-Type Closed Prison in Turkey, has been banned from making calls for six months. Other prisoners held in the same prison – Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş – have also had these […]Read More
The Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has released a report on the violation of human rights that occurred in Turkey in September. According to the report, there were 238 violations of the ‘right to live’ and 255 cases of reported ‘torture’.Read More
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