Mine exploration activities carried out around the rural area in Kurşunlu (Pirejman) in Diyarbakır’s (Amed) Dicle district has hit the local agricultural production hard in the surrounding villages.Read More
Climate justice continued to be one of the most discussed topics worldwide in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic ensured that climate protests and environmental campaigns were mostly held on social media, though a large number of young people still took to streets in many places around the world.Read More
As the KDP continues to cooperate with Turkey, constant bombardments are destroying Kurdistan’s natural environment, says ecologist Fetah Qelati. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is acting in accordance with Turkey by deploying its forces to areas where the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is located. On 23 December the KDP began to construct a new checkpoint […]Read More
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Hasankeyf submerged by a Turkish dam – Part 1: Socio-economic
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Batman (Êlih) Hasankeyf, an ancient town in Turkey’s south-eastern province of Batman (Êlih) – with a history of 12,000 years of human settlement – was engulfed in 2019 by the reservoir of a controversial hydroelectric dam project.Read More
A hydroelectric power project is planned for Zori Stream, which passes between Balbaşı (Herîvê) village in Batman’s (Elih) Sason district and Kayahan (Xweşika) in Diyarbakır’s (Amed) Kulp district in Turkey. The project threatens cultural and natural assets as well as the lives of the people in the region.Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Sudan has decided to pull out of talks on the Grand Renaissance Dam constructed by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile. The Ethiopian project will have adverse consequences for downstream states, Egypt and Sudan.Read More
The death toll in Turkey has risen to 83 since Friday’s (30 October) earthquake in the Aegean Sea. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) announced that 962 people have been injured, with 743 discharged from hospitals and 219 still under treatment.Read More
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Residents voice concerns over the Bağlar urban renewal project in
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Poor neighbourhoods in Turkey have often been criminalized and ghettoized. When it comes to Kurdish cities, this marginalization becomes even more extreme, and ‘urban renewal’ can and often does have devastating consequences on the poorest residents.Read More
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Urban renewal in Diyarbakır: A tool for gentrification and assimilation?
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Successive urban renewal projects in Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) two strategic districts, Sur and Bağlar, might be designed to achieve hidden objectives of the Turkish state. These are the sentiments expressed by a number of urban specialists and residents, who suspect that under the discourse of ‘modernization’ and ‘economic revival’, there […]Read More
Ateş Alpar – Adana, Turkey Workers face difficult conditions in a ten-year-old plastic recycling factory in a small neighbourhood in Adana’s Seyhan district in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast.Read More
