While thousands of prisoners in overcrowded prisons faces a real risk of infection, Nazif Ataman, the brother of the jailed Kurdish journalist Ziya Ataman, shared information with the newspaper Yeni Yaşam that his brother’s health is so fragile he is at serious increased risk against the spreading coronavirus pandemic and is really struggling in jail.Read More
The Kurdish villages of Alane, Gunderoj and Azadi in the Balekayeti region of Iraq were reportedly bombed by Turkish warplanes for approx. one hour, according to Roj News. Also a village in Kobanê in northern Syria was bombed by a Turkish drone, Hawar News Agency reports.Read More
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Ciwan Aydın shared the recent developments from around the town of Ain Issa in northern Syria, where Turkey has mobilised more forces against the town.Read More
Youth from Manbij talked to Hawar News Agency regarding the Turkish offensive that is ongoing in the region and shared their messages of resistance despite the attacks they have been facing.Read More
Selam Hisên, a member of the Democratic Syrian Council (MSD), in an interview with Hawar News Agency, assessed the socio-political outcomes of the Turkish forces and allied Syrian opposition factions’ takeover of Afrin (Efrin) in northeast Syria.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
Ferda Çetin Ferda Çetin writes in Yeni Özgür Politika about a controversial residential project of 50,000 houses in Idlib and on the massive housing complexes built in the Syrian Mashhad Ruhin region in Syria nearby Turkish border.Read More
The people of the Cizîrê region of northeast Syria protested against the continuing Turkish control of the besieged city of Afrin (Efrin).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
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