Turkish football entangled in multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme
The Turkish football community is embroiled in a scandal involving a Ponzi scheme set up by Seçil Erzan, former branch...
Japan’s shift to UN terrorism standard results in PKK delisting
Japan’s Public Security Intelligence Agency, tasked with domestic intelligence, has removed several organisations including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from...
Daily News: 29 November 2023
https://twitter.com/1MedyaNews/status/1729904301550583906 A mass hunger strike by Kurdish prisoners in Turkey started on Monday, and is set to continue well into...
Belmarsh Tribunal convenes in US as Assange case spotlights press freedom
Leading journalists, lawyers and human rights activists will gather at the National Press Club in Washington DC on 9 December...
Turkey’s rights watchdog petitions for independent delegation to visit jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan
Turkey's prominent rights watchdog has petitioned the Turkish Justice Ministry to send an independent delegation to İmralı Island Prison, where...
Turkey freezes assets for Kurdish aid organisations
The Turkish government announced in the country's Official Gazette on Monday that it has imposed asset freezes on 62 individuals...
Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey hunger strike for Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom
A hunger strike demanding "freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and a solution to the Kurdish issue" commenced across prisons in Turkey...
Syrian Kurdish commander warns of regional tensions, renewed extremism amid Gaza war
The spiralling violence in Gaza will have devastating consequences, Syrian Democratic Forces commander Mazloum Abdi told Al-Monitor's Amberin Zaman in...
Welcome to the struggle
Fréderike Geerdink “Welcome to the struggle”, I told a Dutch friend this week who asked me rather desperately what she...
Teen Kurdish porter killed at Iran-Iraq border
A Kurdish kolbar, 17 year old Farooq Alizadeh from Rabat, Sardasht, was shot dead by Iranian border guards at the...
Daily News: 28 November 2023
https://twitter.com/1MedyaNews/status/1729549463465742372 The Turkish Interior Ministry has confirmed 98 detentions in raids across 18 provinces on Tuesday. Some of those detained...
Kurdish lawyer’s unsolved murder remembered in Diyarbakır, Turkey
https://twitter.com/1MedyaNews/status/1729526282717724868 The eighth anniversary of the unsolved murder of Tahir Elçi, a distinguished Kurdish lawyer and Bar Association president,...