Negotiations continue concerning compensation payments the Kurdistan Region of Iraq owes Turkey for exporting oil without the approval of the federal government. Despite five months of talks between Baghdad and Ankara, no solution has yet been reached.
Discoveries of appalling torture tactics employed by Iranian law enforcement officers on detainees have been unveiled by an independent Iranian human rights organisation. The Follow-up Committee of Iranian Detainees said two protesters Iran executed in January were subjected to prolonged torture.
A delegation led by the pro-Kurdish Green Left Party MP Adalet Kaya visited Diyarbakır, to investigate the detention and alleged torture of a Kurdish pastoralist family. Their findings contradict the government’s official narrative.
Rezan Sarıca, a lawyer acting for the jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, reveals the reality of Turkey’s isolation practices in Imrali prison island, in a Medya News exclusive. Sarıca is one of two lawyers who saw Öcalan during his last permitted legal visit four years ago.
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