Turkey’s new Family and Youth Fund Law will facilitate child marriages, says MP
A new law in Turkey, while ostensibly designed to support young couples, risks facilitating child marriages and exacerbating domestic violence...
Journalist out of contact for 33 days after detention at Iraqi Kurdistan border
Kurdish journalist Suleyman Ahmed, editor of the Arabic service of Roj News, has been out of contact for 33 days...
Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Korek Telecom faces total suspension over unsettled debt
The Iraqi parliamentary committee has stepped up pressure on Erbil-based telecoms giant Korek Telecom, urging the Communications and Media Commission...
Cancel culture rules in Turkey as state broadcaster deletes Kurdish soprano’s recordings
The Turkish state broadcaster TRT has removed all recordings of Kurdish opera singer Pervin Chakar from its archives after Republican...
International figures call for delisting PKK on 45th anniversary of its foundation
As calls for a review of the designation of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) grow on the 45th anniversary of...
Turkey: Medical reports reveal extent of police violence against detained women’s rights activists
Three journalists and eighteen women demonstrators arrested on Saturday during a protest against gender-based violence in the Kurdish-majority province of...
Kurdish scholar attributes global violence to patriarchy, capitalism, nation-state
Rojin Mukriyan, a PhD candidate in the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork, Ireland, has outlined a...
Turkey accused of exploiting Israel-Hamas conflict to escalate attacks in northern Syria
Turkey is exploiting the global chaos surrounding the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza to intensify its attacks on northern Syria, a...
Government language fuels violence against women: Turkey’s human rights association co-chair
The language employed by the Turkish government and its supporters correlates with an increase in violence after each statement, Human...
Turkey: Women face police violence on international day against gender-based violence
Women in the Kurdish-majority province of Şırnak (Şirnex) in south-eastern Turkey faced police violence when they gathered in the city...