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Back to homepageEUROPEAN MP JULIE WARD: SAVE HASANKEYF
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
Read MoreTurkish government sent Syrian refugees to Afrin
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
Read MoreTurkish authorities blocked some 55,000 websites in 2018
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”
Read MoreTurkey bombed Maxmur Camp
Turkish army’s jets have bombed the vicinity of Martyr Rustem Cudi Camp (Maxmur), injuring two civilian
Read MoreAydemir: Cinema helps to build Kurds’ collective memory
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
Read MoreDemolition of monument to humanity violated rights of sculptor
The Constitutional Court ruled that the demolition of the “Monument to Humanity” in Kars violated the right to freedom of expression of its author
Read MoreSETA report targets journalists, said Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform
We publish the the written statement issued by the Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform about the SETA report
Read MoreÖcalan: The Third Way is the way
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
Read MoreTurkey steps up military intervention in Iraq
Turkey’s main aim is to crush movements for democracy and Kurdish rights
Read MoreThe AANES Remains the Only True Option for Peace, Stability, and Freedom in Syria
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
Read MoreGlobal Action Day for Hasankeyf
On June 7 and 8 actions are planned in dozens of cities in Turkey and across Mesopotamia
Read MoreTaşhoron Church in ruins as Turkish government abandoned restoration project
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
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 MoreLawyers respond to Ban on visits with Ocalan Lifted
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
Read MoreTurkey – Hunger Strikes. HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts
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”
Read More“Where is your voice?”A political prisoner’s letter to humanity
Murat Türk, born 1976 in Amed (Diyarbakır), is a former guerrilla fighter from Kurdistan. 24 years ago, he was imprisoned by the Turkish state
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 MoreTurkey: hunger strikes for Öcalan reach a critical stage
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
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 MoreTurkey: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers
Misuse of Terrorism Charge Undermines Fair Trial Rights
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