When President Erdoğan attempted to taunt Selahattin Demirtaş for not having held any political rallies, the imprisoned former co-chair of...

It is now over seven years since most of the world learnt about the Yazidis. For a short time, international...

Courtrooms have become important battlefields of Kurdish struggle. Judicial systems can be used to attack critics of the authorities, both...

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When countries respond to refugees and migrants by treating them as invaders, it is, perhaps, only a matter of time...

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"The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." So wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky over one...

I couldn’t help wondering if they would have been equally unperturbed if they had been reporting on Hitler’s Germany. That...

Twenty-three years ago today, Abdullah Öcalan was forced to leave Syria. He began a tour of Europe in search of...