A Munich court in Germany sentenced 10 Turkish activists who were convicted of accusations of supporting the TKP/ML (Turkish Communist Party – Marxist-Leninist.). Dr. Banu Büyükavcı is among those activists and was given a decision of deportation and sentenced to 3 years and 6 months. Büyükavcı spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika regarding the decision of […]Read More
The police have attacked a demonstration organised by the Peoples’ Democratic Party in Turkey’s eastern province of Tunceli (Dersim) when the protestors wanted to read a press statement regarding the ongoing hungers strikes in Turkish prisons, according to Mesopotamia Agency.Read More
Mehmet Akpolat (46) who has been in a Turkish prison for 27 years, has been held in a solitary confinement cell for 19 years in Siirt E Type Prison, in Siirt (Sêrt) city in southeastern Turkey. His mother Hanife Akpolat (73) talked to Mesopotama Agency (MA) on the difficulties her son and she have been […]Read More
Sixteen Syrian and internationally based non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) came together in the Dêrik district of Qamishli (Qamishlo) canton in Syria to appeal to the World Health Organization (WHO) for assistance in medically confronting the Covid-19 pandemic throughout Syria. The NGO’s urged WHO to provide more support to the people of Syria. “We have been passing […]Read More
According to Mesopotamia Agency, Turkey’s military operations that were launched on 9 January in Lice, a district in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakır (Amed), continue. Soldiers reportedly have even broken down the doors of houses that were unoccupied. The military operations are reportedly still continuing in the Çağdaş (Cinezur), Dibek (Derxust), Arıklı (Hiseynik) and Bağlan […]Read More
The hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey – to protest against the prison isolation conditions imposed on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and the ill-treatment of prisoners across the country – have reached their 55th day. Solidarity hunger strikes also reached their 34th day in Makhmur (Mexmûr) refugee camp in Iraqi […]Read More
A permanent vigil – which was first launched nine years ago to demand freedom for Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in front of the Council of Europe’s headquarters in Strasbourg – has resumed, following the lifting of the lockdowns in France.Read More
There were 138 violations of media and journalists’ rights during 2020 in Iraqi Kurdistan, including arbitrary arrests and physical attacks, a new Kurdistan Journalists’ Syndicate (KJS) report reveals.Read More
The wave of operations launched by Iranian authorities since 8 January targeting students and activists continues, reports Hawar Nes Agency.Read More
Peace Mothers, who have been the symbol of the peace struggle in Turkey since the 1980s, continue to give their voice to the demands for peace so that no other mother should have to shed a tear for their children, as they did.Read More
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