Politics in court – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn Courtrooms have become important battlefields of Kurdish struggle. Judicial systems can be used to attack critics of the...
Turkey: Court allows former army sergeant sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping Kurdish woman to remain free
Special sergeant Musa Orhan was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on charges of sexually assaulting a Kurdish woman, İpek Er...
Turkey: Main opposition party leader refused entry into the Statistical Institute
Turkey's main opposition party leader was refused admission to the premises of the Turkish Statistical Institute in the capital city...
Turkey: No justice, 6 years after Tahir Elçi’s murder in Diyarbakir
Tahir Elçi, the former chair of the Diyarbakır (Amed) Bar Association, was shot to death in front of the historical...
Channel Disaster: First body identified is a Kurdish woman from Iraqi Kurdistan
Maryam and 17 men, six other women - one of whom was pregnant - and three children died as a...
Kacar family protests over targeting by the KDP in front of UN Sulaymaniyah office
Hasan Kaçar, a member of the Erbil (Hewlêr) representation of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), who was imprisoned in Turkey...
Thousands take to the streets in Berlin against the PKK ban
Kurds and supporters of their cause took to the streets on Saturday 27 November - which marked the 43rd...
Women take to the streets in Germany and Switzerland in solidarity against violence
Thousands of women took to the streets in different cities of Europe on International Day to Combat Violence against Women....
Australian activists join call to #DelistPKKNow
As the Kurdistan Digital Media Assembly's global campaign to remove PKK from the EU's banned organisation list continues with hundreds...
Student activist from Iraqi Kurdistan, ‘The police use stun guns on male students genitals and fire tear gas at us.’
Mark Campbell The student protests began on 21 November, ostensibly over the suspension of monthly stipend allowance payments and the government’s...
