Turkey: Climate and tourists push Cilo Glaciers toward extinction
Glaciers on Turkey’s Cilo Mountain, among the last remaining Ice Age remnants in the Middle East, are facing extinction within ...
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Families of the disappeared demand justice in cities across Turkey
Families of the disappeared and human rights defenders staged protests in five cities across Turkey on Saturday, demanding justice for ...
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Public vigil begins in Hakkari to protest trustee policy
On 26 June, citizens and MPs of the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) began a new public vigil ...
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Prominent intellectuals call to halt Turkish government’s trustee policy
A prominent group of 115 intellectuals, literary figures and artists have signed a joint petition condemning the Turkish government's practice ...
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Thousands rally in Hakkari for democracy, against trustee policy
A major rally in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority city of Hakkari (Colemêrg) aims to expel a state-appointed trustee from the municipality and ...
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Turkey-wide protests ramp up against state trustee policy, ousting elected mayors
Protests against the state appointment of a trustee to replace the elected mayor in Hakkari (Colemêrg) are spreading to many ...
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Hundreds protest against arrest of Colemêrg’s co-mayor and appointment of state trustee
Hundreds of residents of Syria's Arab-majority Tebqa (al-Thawrah) organised a march to protest against the arrest of Hakkari (Colemêrg) co-Mayor ...
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Legendary Kurdish politician Leyla Zana addresses Hakkari: Democracy must be victorious
Legendary Kurdish politician and ex-political prisoner Leyla Zana defiantly condemned the latest wave of state repression against democratically elected representatives ...
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Kurdistan National Congress calls international community to act against actions of Turkey’s AKP
Memet Sıddık Akış, the democratically elected Kurdish Co-mayor of Hakkari (Colemêrg), was detained by Turkish authorities on 3 June and ...
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