During their 821st week of actions, the Saturday Mothers demanded to know the fate of the lawyer Faik Candan, who was murdered in 1994. “Kurdish blood is on the state’s hands”, they said. “The Turkish state’s eyes are blind and its ears are deaf”.Read More
Nurhak Kılagöz, an artist from the Mesopotamia Culture Centre (MKM), has released an instrumental song named “Dayika Taybet” to commemorate the death of Taybet İnan, who was murdered during curfews declared in the Silopi district of Şırnak (Şirnex) in 2015 and whose body was left on the street for seven days.Read More
As hunger strikes continue amid the Covid-19 outbreak in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa (Riha) Prison, the prison administration is not testing prisoners for the virus despite increasing case numbers.Read More
Speaking at the commemoration event for the 42nd anniversary of the Maraş Massacre, Democratic Alevi Association (DAD), Ankara Branch member Pınar Alpay said, “Undoubtedly, it is important not to lose our social memory and not to forget about these massacres”.Read More
Democratic Union Party co-presidency council member Saleh Moslem commented on the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) attacks in Amediye and the latest situation in Iraqi Kurdistan.Read More
Attacks launched by the Turkish state against northeastern Syria continue, leading to responses from the the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).Read More
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has denied the harassment and strip-searching of 30 university students, while an investigation into the matter was launched by Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu. The HDP Women’s Assembly reacted against AKP statements which denied the incidents.Read More
The Media Centre of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) issued a press statement regarding the media reports about what allegedly happened in the area of Sihêla on Wednesday 16 December.Read More
The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) made a press statement for human rights week surrounded by police in front of the Human Rights Association’s İstanbul Branch building.Read More
Racists attacked the funeral of People’s Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Aysel Tuğluk’s mother’s on 13 September 2017 in Ankara, Turkey.Read More
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