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EUROPEAN MP JULIE WARD: SAVE HASANKEYF

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Member of the European Parliament, Julie Ward, sent a letter to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, urging him to make representations to the Turkish government regarding the threat to Hasankeyf and the negative impacts of the Ilisu Dam

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Turkish government sent Syrian refugees to Afrin

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The Governorship of Istanbul announced on 22 July that the Syrian refugees not registered in the city would have to leave Istanbul in less than a month

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Turkish authorities blocked some 55,000 websites in 2018

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Istanbul-based Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD) released the English version of its “Assessment Report on Blocked Websites, News Articles and Social Media Content From Turkey”

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Turkey bombed Maxmur Camp

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Turkish army’s jets have bombed the vicinity of Martyr Rustem Cudi Camp (Maxmur), injuring two civilian

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Aydemir: Cinema helps to build Kurds’ collective memory

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Interview with Hasim Aydemir, director of the film “14 Tirmeh” (14 July). The film is somehow a ‘first’ in that opened the way to bring to cinema the resistance and more in general the 40-year long struggle of the Kurdish people

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Demolition of monument to humanity violated rights of sculptor

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The Constitutional Court ruled that the demolition of the “Monument to Humanity” in Kars violated the right to freedom of expression of its author

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SETA report targets journalists, said Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform

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We publish the the written statement issued by the Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform about the SETA report

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Öcalan: The Third Way is the way

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Asrın Law Office published a written statement about the meeting they had with their client, Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan on Imralı on June 18

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Turkey steps up military intervention in Iraq

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Turkey’s main aim is to crush movements for democracy and Kurdish rights

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The AANES Remains the Only True Option for Peace, Stability, and Freedom in Syria

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this democratic, rights-based polity, which was established in 2012 after the Assad regime left the area, remains the region’s best bet for stability, justice, and peace

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Global Action Day for Hasankeyf

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On June 7 and 8 actions are planned in dozens of cities in Turkey and across Mesopotamia

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Taşhoron Church in ruins as Turkish government abandoned restoration project

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The historical Taşhoron (Surp Yerrortutyun) Church in the neighbourhood of Malatya where murdered Armenian journalist Hrant Dink spent his childhood was left to its fate in 2012 as restoration works were not completed

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Turkey – Damned Again…

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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

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Lawyers respond to Ban on visits with Ocalan Lifted

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On 16 May 2019, the Minister of Justice of Turkey Abdulhamit Gül made a statement declaring that the ban on lawyers being allowed to visit with their client Mr. Abdullah Öcalan has been lifted

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Turkey – Hunger Strikes. HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts

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Peoples’ Democratic Party vice co-chair Hişyar Özsoy wrote a letter to the international community regarding the 15 political prisoners who have turned their hunger strike into a “death fast”

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 “Where is your voice?”A political prisoner’s letter to humanity

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Murat Türk, born 1976 in Amed (Diyarbakır), is a former guerrilla fighter from Kurdistan. 24 years ago, he was imprisoned by the Turkish state

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Öcalan’s lawyer: Isolation means war

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Lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez is one of the lawyer of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, from Asrin Hukuk Burosu

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Turkey: hunger strikes for Öcalan reach a critical stage

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Hundreds of Kurdish detainees in Turkish prisons are carrying out a hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan

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Open Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

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Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have taken their own lives in the last three weeks

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Turkey: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers

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Misuse of Terrorism Charge Undermines Fair Trial Rights

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