Political prisoner held in solitary confinement cell for 19 years
Mehmet Akpolat (46) who has been in a Turkish prison for 27 years, has been held in a solitary confinement...
Details of President Erdoğan’s letter to President Macron leaked
Segments of letters exchanged between Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and France's President Emmanuel Macron have been leaked to the...
What will be the outcome of Turkish Minister Akar’s visit to Iraq?
Dr. Iyad El-Mecalî, a specialist in international relations, provided an assessment to Hawar News Agency about the possible outcomes of...
Ümit Göksu: Turkey’s government ‘should stop keeping people in prison as political hostages’
The hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey - to protest against the prison isolation conditions imposed on Kurdistan...
Vigil for Öcalan resumes in front of the Council of Europe’s headquarters
A permanent vigil - which was first launched nine years ago to demand freedom for Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) Kurdish...
Şêrîvan Mihemed and Widad Helebî: Act against the ‘occupation’ of Afrin
Two women from Aleppo in Syria - Şêrîvan Mihemed and Widad Helebî - who travelled to Afrin (Efrin) three years...
KJS reports 138 cases of media rights violations in 2020 in Iraqi Kurdistan
There were 138 violations of media and journalists' rights during 2020 in Iraqi Kurdistan, including arbitrary arrests and physical attacks,...
The defenders of peace against war, life against death: The story of peace mothers
Peace Mothers, who have been the symbol of the peace struggle in Turkey since the 1980s, continue to give their...
The number of prisoners in Turkey has increased fivefold since 2002
Data compiled by Turkey's Human Rights Centre's Union of Bar Associations reveals that the number of prisoners in Turkey has...
Wife of prisoner on hunger strike: We should unite to end the isolation
As the hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey to protest the isolation of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader...