Tag: Political Prisoners

French philosopher Alain Badiou reaffirmed his solidarity with Abdullah Öcalan's decades-long struggle for justice, freedom and truth, and called for ...

Kurdish musician Nudem Durak, who has been imprisoned for over ten years in Turkey for singing in her native language, ...

Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak, who spent more than three decades in prison in Turkey, has been named the recipient ...

A proposal to amend Turkey’s penal code and laws on sentence execution has drawn criticism from legal experts and human ...

Özgür Özel, leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has called for the creation of a cross-party platform ...

Following the announcement by Turkey’s Ministry of Justice on 21 May that the draft of the 10th Judicial Reform Package ...

A Tuesday headline in pro-Kurdish newspaper Yeni Yaşam has reignited scrutiny over the fate of political prisoners in Turkey, spotlighting ...

Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, parliamentary group leader for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, has called for urgent legal ...

A new political era in Turkey must be built on local democracy, equality and a legally grounded social contract*, pro-Kurdish ...

Slovenian philosopher Alenka Zupančič has voiced her full support for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s latest appeal for peace and a ...