The criminalisation of the PKK can be successfully challenged says Belgium lawyer
Mark Campbell Today’s Medya News podcast assesses the significance of the landmark Belgium court case that concluded, at...
CoE sets deadline for Turkey on the cases of Öcalan and other political prisoners
The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers reviewed in its recent meetings the cases of Abdullah Öcalan and a group...
‘Three types of judges’ in court rooms: An open letter from Demirtaş to judge Ertekin
Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) who has been imprisoned since November 2016, replied in...
New games in Kirkuk
Nurettin Demirtaş "Negotiations have been carried out for a while now to hand over responsibility for Kirkuk's external security to...
Turkey’s economic crisis sees long bread queues forming in Adana
As the Turkish lira continues to drop in value against other currencies people are suffering from the rise in prices...
Turkey: Court sentences youth to 124 years in prison despite strong evidence suggesting his innocence
A suspect who presented evidence that he had been 140 km away at the time of a murder incident has...
As CSP-26 begins, the names of fighters killed in Turkey’s reported chemical attacks released
On the day the 26th Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CSP-26) began in the Hague,...
The door of Öcalan’s cell at Imralı is weakening
Fréderike Geerdink During one of the previous campaigns to break the isolation of PKK-leader Abdullah Öcalan, I had just moved...
New bans on visits imposed upon Abdullah Öcalan
As the Turkish authorities continue to respond negatively to an appeal by the lawyers representing their high profile client, imprisoned...
On economic crisis and reconciliation
Selahattin Demirtaş "As the issue of reconciliation is directly linked with social peace and justice, it's also key to ending...
