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Back to homepageTurkish government’s onslaught on the HDP continues amid the fight against the coronavirus
Between March 11 and May 10, the police intervened in 8 events organized to protest the government’s measures on the Covid-19 and 42 people were detained. In addition, an investigation was launched against two members of parliament for their critical statements on Covid-19 measures
Read MoreTurkey. 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 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 MoreSignature campaign for lawyers on death fast in Turkey 0
A group of lawyers, intellectuals, writers, politicians, human rights defenders, journalists and citizens started a campaign for lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal who are on hunger strike
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 MoreGramsci, Öcalan and the Postmodern Prince
The Kurdish self-governing resistance can also be read as resistance for the creation of a counter-hegemony
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 MoreGrup Yorum member Gökçek: 304 days on death fast
İbrahim Gökçek, a member of Group Yorum, who has been on death fast for 304 days, said that there is no other way than resist and called on people to play their part
Read MoreMEPs label law on prisoners in Turkey “a great disappointment”
Turkish ruling parties have decided to “deliberately expose the lives of those whom they consider political opponents to the risk of the deadly COVID 19”, warn MEPs
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 More“Şervano” – The song of resistance
The Kurdish people’s resistance against the invasion of northern and eastern Syria by the Turkish army and its proxies continues
Read MoreFor Ahmet Altan – in a Turkish prison
“Wounds are so deep and painful in these countries that in order to clean those wounds you have to use your pen like a scalpel”, Ahmet Altan
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 MoreRojava, la finta tregua di Erdogan: «Spaccherò le teste dei curdi»
Continua l’offensiva militare nel nord della Siria. Sdf: «La Turchia schiera l’Isis». Dopo giorni di assedio, i soccorsi raggiungono Sere Kaniye. Almeno 235 i civili uccisi
Read MoreOppose Turkish invasion of Rojava
It is for good reason that there is a Kurdish saying, “No friend but the mountains.” There is a long history of Kurdish groups being used as pawns and betrayed by imperialist powers
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