Kurdistan defence from the shopkeeper who was detained: “I was speaking the truth”
Cemil Taşkesen, a shopkeeper in Siirt (Sêrt) province in Turkey was detained after his shop was visited by opposition party...
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HDP’s Hişyar Özsoy says ‘Russian authorities may actually encourage Turkey to attack some other parts’ of Rojava
Desmond Fernandes The People's Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) MP and co-spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Hişyar Özsoy, spoke to Medya News...
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Detainees sleeping on cardboard in Silivri Prison
Prison conditions continue to be one of the most important problems in Turkey as calls from various human rights organisations...
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The Roboskî massacre will repeat itself – soon
Ten years ago on 28 December, the Roboskî massacre happened. In the bombing by the Turkish army on the Turkey-Iraq...
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The Roboskî massacre will repeat itself – soon
Fréderike Geerdink Ten years ago on 28 December, the Roboskî massacre happened. In the bombing by the Turkish army on...
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Kurdish refugee freezes to death on border between Poland and Belarus
A Kurdish migrant stranded on the border between Poland and Belarus is reported to have died of cold and starvation...
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The Tablet: Christians Targeted in Turkey’s Strategy of Syrian Displacements
The Catholic newspaper The Tablet published an article on 28 October on the suffering of the Christian community and the...
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Discipline and punish – a weekly news review
"The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." So wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky over one...
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Discipline and punish – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn "The degree of civilisation in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." So wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky...
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Turkey: Police exert undue pressure on children sexually assaulted by special sergeant
On 17 October a high school student in the eastern province of Van (Wan) in Turkey was reportedly subjected to...
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