Erdal Kotan, the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Pertek District ex-co-Chair has stated that prisoners are being kept in isolation at Elazığ (Xerpêt) High-Security Prison Number One in Turkey. He also criticized the prison administration for not allowing them to receive books.Read More
Turkish envoy Osman Köse, Osman Muhammed Ali and Beşdar Ramazan Salih were murdered during an incident in Iraqi Kurdistan on 17 July 2019. Six people were arrested and placed on trial.Read More
The first hearing of the lawsuit relating to the assassination five years ago of Diyarbakır Bar Association’s Chair Tahir Elçi is being held today.Read More
Celebrations marking the eighth anniversary of the foundation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were held in Diyarbakır (Amed) in Turkey.Read More
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu has made a statement on the agenda of Turkey and the Middle East.Read More
Iraqi Federal Police have found a mass grave containing the bodies of people killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Kirkuk.Read More
“World Kobanê Day” begins on 1 November to remember the resistance of the Kobanê people against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in 2014.Read More
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), who remains imprisoned under isolation conditions in İmralı High Security F-Type Closed Prison in Turkey, was banned from meeting his lawyers for six months from 23 September. It was also revealed that Öcalan was banned from making calls for six months.Read More
MedyaNews Exclusive by Fréderike Geerdink There are twenty one cases of Covid-19 at present in Makhmur camp, the refugee camp in Iraq where Kurds who had fled from state violence in the southeast of Turkey during the 1990’s now live. Five people are in a serious condition.Read More
The Kurdish-language play “Bêrû’’ was included in the October programme of the İstanbul Municipality City Theatre in Turkey. Due to be staged by Teatra Jiyana Nû (New Life Theatre), it was banned on the grounds that it could “disturb the general public order”.Read More
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