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Back to homepageTurkey. Lawyer Aytaç Ünsal sent a letter on is 110th day on death fast
The lawyers are demanding a fair trial. Lawyer Ebru Timtik is on the 141st day of death fast, while lawyer Aytaç Ünsal is on the 110th day
Read MoreSolidarity keeps us alive! Campaign for the release of political prisoners
The Free Women Movement (TJA) launched a campaign with other international women organizations called “Solidarity keeps us alive” in favour of political prisoners
Read MoreRemember, Boycott Turkey, NOW!
The list of outrages perpetrated by the Turkish republic, under the authoritarian rule of Turkish President Erdoğan in recent years seem endless. The enormous silence surrounding these criminal acts is equally outrageous
Read MoreINTERVIEW WITH GRUP YORUM MEMBER DILAN EKIN
Dilan Ekin, a member of Grup Yorum, was detained on 8 May, along with 16 other people, during the police attack on the funeral of Grup Yorum member Ibrahim Gökçek
Read MoreTurkish government dismiss and arrest more HDP mayors
HDP won 65 municipalities, 3 of which metropolitan cities in the local elections of 31 March 2019. 45 municipalities have been seized and taken over by state-appointed trustees so far
Read MoreGrup Yorum bassist Ibrahim Gökçek dies in hospital
IbrahimGökçek, bassist of the socialist band Grup Yorum, led a death fast protest for 323 days in protest at the state repression against his group
Read MoreIbrahim Gökçek ends the hunger strike
Grup Yorum has announced that Gökçek has ended his action
Read MoreResistance. For Ilhan Comak and all political prisoners in Turkey
İlhan Sami Çomak, who was born in 1973, was arrested as a young student in 1994. There is currently a campaign and increased publicity to try and get this poet released
Read MoreNew call for the release of Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak jailed in Turkey for 26 years
Turkey counts so many political prisoners (there are currently up to 70,000 students in jail) that it can be easy to get human rights fatigue when reporting on the country
Read MoreOutrage – and More Outrage …Lest we forget Hevrîn Khalaf
On 12 October 2019, Hevrîn Khalaf and her driver were killed by Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya mercenaries near the M4 Motorway as part of the Turkish military invasion «Operation Spring Peace»
Read MoreTurkey: Decision to re-arrest writer Ahmet Altan a scandalous injustice
Ahmet Altan has committed no crime. He was released last Monday, following a unanimous court decision. His three years of pre-trial detention are a travesty of justice as is the sentence imposed on him
Read More“Turkey seeks to open new lands for ISIS to prolong its life”
The General Command of the Military Councils in Al-Jazeera region called on human rights organizations, the European Union and the United Nations to take an anti-invasion stand
Read MoreAgainst Erasure: Art and Sudan’s Sit-in
More than 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in the government’s June 3 attack on a sit-in in Khartoum
Read MoreTurkey – Damned Again…
Turkey has continued to move further away from the European Union,” noted the commission in its annual report on enlargement, the European Commission’s report on Ankara’s progress towards membership
Read MoreWhy are Colombian indigenous peoples protesting against President Ivan Duque?
Indigenous people are leading a mass movement in Colombia
Read MoreDareen Tatour’s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime
An update on the ongoing struggle of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour by Marcia Lynx Qualey of Arabit.org
Read MoreExtrajudicial Killing Dims Hopes for Colombia’s Demobilized FARC
Dimar Torres, a demobilized member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was shot just outside of Campo Alegre
Read MoreÖcalan’s lawyer: Isolation means war
Lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez is one of the lawyer of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, from Asrin Hukuk Burosu
Read MoreOpen Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt
Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have taken their own lives in the last three weeks
Read MoreAnother Soul on IceTurkey’s Ongoing Attack on ‘Freedom’
Ahmet Altan, 69 year old writer… is in cell in Silivri Prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul
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