Pro-Kurdish DEM Party candidates Mehmet Güneş and Emine Kartal have been disqualified from running for Iğdır mayoralty in Turkey’s upcoming local elections, sparking protest.
Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee visited Turkey this week to assess conditions on the prison island of İmralı. However, the delegation failed to visit the prison itself.
Zeinab Jalalian, a Kurdish woman from Iran, is the Islamic Republic’s longest-held female political prisoner as she enters her 17th year behind bars. International calls for her release are ongoing.
And the umbrella organisation Kurdistan Communities Union has slammed Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party for complicity in Turkey’s cross-border military assaults.
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