A hunger strike has begun in Kürkçüler prison, in the Adana region of Turkey as a response to humiliation and ill-treatment of prisoners there.
Selahattin Demirtaş a former co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party or HDP has released an article which he wrote from prison declaring HDP as the alternative the Turkey’s ruling party.
A new play, ‘The Cell Without Night’, explores the experiences and political thought of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the Kurdish liberation movement imprisoned since 1999 by the Turkish government.
Several experts and politicians in Turkey have blamed Turkish officials for negligence, after a traffic disaster left at least 21 people dead and injured dozens in the southeastern province of Mardin on Saturday.
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