18/04/2024 – #DailyNews – #MedyaNews
📍 An Ankara court refuses to release 18 Kurdish politicians, as the high-profile Kobane trial drags on in Turkey. The next hearing is scheduled for 16 May.
📍 MP Sevda Karaca demands that Turkish security personnel be held to account for sexual offences against women in Kurdish regions, condemning the “culture of impunity.”
📍 A press conference at the Council of Europe highlights concerns over the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. Lawyer Özgür Faik Erol and MPs address the ‘legal black hole’ created by Turkey’s isolation policies.
📍 The Yazidi New Year of Çarşema Sor is celebrated in cultural events across Turkey, Iraq and North and East Syria. Meanwhile, in the Turkish parliament, an MP that used the Kurdish language to welcome in the Yazidi festival has her microphone switched off by the speaker.
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