Turkey: New documentary on Hrant Dink released on 15th anniversary of his death
A documentary on the Armenian journalist and intellectual Hrant Dink has been released on the 15th anniversary of his death....
Historians lose book contract with a Turkish university over a mention of the ‘Armenian Genocide’
Turkey’s Koç University terminated a contract to publish a book on Ottoman history due to the authors use of the...
Afrin four years after launch of Turkish military campaign
Kurdish journalist Nazım Daştan, who reported from the battleground during Turkey's military operation targeting the Kurdish-majority province of Afrin in...
Lawyers urge authorities to immediately release jailed politician Aysel Tuğluk
A number of lawyers have made a statement about the state of health of Aysel Tuğluk, former co-chair of the...
Turkey: First ‘Democracy Alliance’ meeting held in reponse to call from HDP
Various socialist and leftist parties held their first meeting yesterday (18 December) in Ankara in response to a call from...
ECHR finds Turkey wrongful in banning family visits due to detainee’s objection to strip search
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday ruled in favour of Elif Kaya, whose family was banned from...
Importance of the M4 highway to Turkey
Having conducted two offensives into Northeast Syria, Turkey has been intensifying attacks on the district centre of Ayn Issa, its...
The hard life of Kurdish nomad women in the mountains
Kurdish nomads (koçer) trek up to the highlands in spring and summer and go down to the villages where they...
Forty-six-year-old woman graduates from Rojava University with first class degree, now a member of teaching staff
Gulbihar Esad Ali is now a teacher of literature and language at Rojava University whose passion for literature started in...
Turkey: 8 parties come together in Democracy Alliance
On 27 September 2021, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) announced their "Democracy Alliance", which they are now working on as...
