In Van, Diyarbakir, Mardin, Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş and Şırnak, families of People’s Defense Forces (HPG) guerrillas are treated inhumanely as they bury their dead.Read More
The ‘Covid-19 pandemic’ has remained a focus of attention to policy makers. The United Nations (UN) has just published a report evaluating the consequences of the pandemic on the tourism sector worldwide.Read More
Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) Central Executive Committee member, Duran Kalkan, commented on the Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee’s (CPT’s) report examining the prison isolation conditions of Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan. He stated that the significant struggles that have been carried out by Kurdish people have helped to bring attention to Ocalan’s situation.Read More
The challenging migration journey of storks, which begins every year in August, has begun. With the summer season coming to an end, storks begin a journey spanning thousands of kilometers, from Istanbul and other parts of Europe to South Africa.Read More
Mithat Sancar, the Peoples’s Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) co-chair, attended a public meeting in the Bodrum district of Muğla, a city in Turkey.Read More
Amedspor football team in Diyarbakır (Amed), Turkey, has held its 4th extraordinary congress. Vechettin Alsaç, a business person, was elected as the chair of the club. The congress had previously been cancelled due to the ‘Covid-19’ outbreak.Read More
An explosion, affecting the Arab Gas Pipeline between the northeastern Damascus suburbs of Adra and al-dhamir, has disrupted electricity supplies throughout Syria, Syrian state media reported. The Arab Gas Pipeline extends from Egypt into Jordan and Syria.Read More
Seasonal agricultural workers face precarious living and working conditions
Seasonal agricultural workers who travel thousands of kilometers from the cities of Kurdistan face precarious living and working conditions. They often do not have adequate access to safe water or electricity supplies. They have to work and live in unhealthy and unsafe conditions.Read More
Iran will hold its next presidential elections on 18 June 2021, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Jamal Orff, stated.Read More
Ayhan Bilgen, who has spent many years in politics and has been working hard as co-mayor of the municipality, is an intellectual. We asked him about the municipality’s cooperation with NGO’s and how the success of HDP municipalities in local areas affect municipal government.Read More