Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er ended their 65-day-long hunger strike in a prison in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on Thursday, after their demands for improvement in prison conditions were met, their families told reporters.
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party has recently come under fire for the controversial ‘special amnesty’ regulation which excludes amnesty for any of Turkey’s political prisoners.
Sherwan Sherwani, a Kurdish journalist in Iraq, was sentenced to an additional four years on Thursday in a case tied to his criticism of Turkish military operations in Iraqi Kurdistan. Another Kurdish journalist was abducted Thursday night after condemning Sherwani’s extended sentence.
The People’s Defense Forces, the military wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, has reported a significant escalation in Turkish forces’ military operations against Kurdish guerrilla positions in Iraqi Kurdistan during the past week.
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