The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Urfa province Co-Mayor Emine Çetiner was detained whilst she was attending a commemoration of the 2015 Ankara ISIS suicide bombing. Çetiner was in Suruç district of Urfa for the commemoration event and taken to the provincial gendarmerie command centre.Read More
Ateş Alpar / İstanbul Artist Zehra Doğan’s first solo exhibition in Turkey is entitled “Nehatîye Dîtın/Not Approved”. It will be on display until 9 November 2020 at the Kıraathane İstanbul Edebiyat Evi cultural centre in İstanbul.Read More
The seventh of October, the day Özgür Gündem Newspaper Editor-in-Chief Gurbetelli Ersöz was killed, has been celebrated as Kurdish Women Journalists Day since 2013.Read More
Medyanews Exclusive In 2011, Turkey was one of the first countries to sign the convention known as the Istanbul Convention. The Istanbul Convention is a Council of Europe treaty that is aimed at preventing violence against women, providing victim protection and ending the impunity of perpetrators of such violence. Turkey was the first country to […]Read More
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Ateş Alpar Documentary filmmaker Bingöl Elmas is a member of the jury for the 57th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival in Turkey. MedyaNews talked to Bingöl Elmas about the role of documentary cinema, social consciousness and collective memory, gender equality and the difficulties of being a female director in cinema.Read More
Nadira Kadirova (23) died in the home of Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Şirin Ünal on 23 September 2019. Kadirova was an Özbek immigrant worker and she was working as a caretaker for the family. It was claimed that she shot herself dead with ruling party deputy Ünal’s weapon in her room. The prosecutor’s […]Read More
Hakkâri (Colemerg) is a province in Turkey with picturesque mountains, countryside and sources of natural spring water. Güldalı (Bilindbasan) village in Yüksekova (Gever) district is located in this province. People earn their livelihoods through animal husbandry.Read More
Ateş Alpar / Adana, Yüreğir Çukurova is in Adana province, which is located in the centre of Turkey. It is known for its intensive agricultural farming, as it has fertile soil that is ideal for farming activity. Seasonal labour migration to the area is significant for this reason. The favourable conditions in Çukurova mean that […]Read More
Aygül Doku has stated that a comprehensive investigation into the disappearance of her sister Gülistan Doku has not yet been conducted. Gülistan Doku has been missing for 264 days in Tunceli (Dersim), Turkey. Aygül noted that the authorities want to close the investigation file regarding her disappearance.Read More
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