Turkey: Over 1,000 bodies in cemetery of the unknown
With the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)'s return to its war policies in 2015, curfews were being announced in...
Letter from journalist serving a 70 year sentence in prison
Sami Tunca is 32 years old and has been behind bars for eight years. In September 2013 at the age...
Sister of a prisoner in İmralı: ‘It is not a place where a person can stay, it’s like hell’
Sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in İmralı Prison, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and three other inmates, Ömer...
Members of the public on the streets of Diyarbakır: “We are in Turkey, but this is Kurdistan”
During a visit the Good Party leader Meral Akşener paid to his shop in Siirt (Sêrt) in Turkey, the shopkeeper...
Averting disasters – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn This week is notable for what didn’t happen. In some cases, the absence of action was predictable. No-one...
Aysel, Gültan, Figen…
"Last week, I went to Kandıra Prison to visit Aysel Tuğluk, Gültan Kışanak and Figen Yüksekdağ. They are very old...
29 notable figures from around the world campaign for the removal of the PKK from EU’s list of ‘terrorist groups’
29 renowned individuals from around the world today, on 5 November, announced that they had established the International Initiative for...
Çilem Doğan case: Woman who murdered her abusive husband in self-defence will be sent to jail
On 8 July 2015, Çilem Doğan killed her husband Hasan Karabulut, who abused her for years and forced her to...
Erdogan-Biden meeting held in Rome
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Joe Biden met at the G-20 Leaders' Summit in Rome, Italy, today...
Kurdistan defence from the shopkeeper who was detained: “I was speaking the truth”
Cemil Taşkesen, a shopkeeper in Siirt (Sêrt) province in Turkey was detained after his shop was visited by opposition party...
