Insufficient burns units cause excessive deaths from fire in Kurdish southeast Turkey
A devastating fire straddling the provinces of Mardin (Mêrdîn) and Diyarbakır (Amed) has exposed critical healthcare shortcomings in Turkey's Kurdish-majority...
Istanbul-Hakkari march to protest against Turkey’s state-appointed trustees
On 30 June, a major protest march from Istanbul to Hakkari (Colemêrg) will start, to demonstrate opposition to the appointment...
Kurdish congress condemns Turkish government negligence in response to deadly wildfire
The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) accused the Turkish government of neglecting repeated warnings about faulty electrical infrastructure that reportedly contributed...
Funerals held as death toll in Mardin-Diyarbakır fire rises to 14
The death toll from the devastating fire in Diyarbakır (Amed) and Mardin (Merdin) has risen to 14, with funerals and...
Kurdish mayor who lost 10 relatives blames state policies for deadly fire in Turkey
Hamdin Demir, the mayor of Mazıdağı (Şemrex) who lost 10 relatives in the fire that swept through rural areas in...
Living in interesting times – a weekly news review
This has been a relatively quiet week for Kurdish politics, but that doesn’t mean that life has got any easier....
KCK calls for Kurdish self-organisation and solidarity in response to devastating fire in Turkey
The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) have responded to a devastating fire in Kurdish-majority areas of Turkey with a strong call...
PYD’s Aldar Xelil: The Turkish state wants to expand the war
In a recent interview, Aldar Xelil, a member of the Co-Presidency Council of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), spoke about...
Early intervention could have saved lives, say villagers after devastating fire
A wildfire has ravaged 66 kilometres of land in southeastern Turkey, leaving behind a path of destruction on Thursday and...
