Turkey: Kurdish lawyers call for Kurdish to gain official status
Lawyers from the Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) staged simultaneous demonstrations in multiple Turkish cities, during the week marking ...
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Kurdish youth march for Öcalan’s freedom begins in Turkey
Hundreds of Kurdish youth set off on a march from Diyarbakır (Amed) to the Halfeti (Xalfetî) district of Şanlıurfa (Riha) ...
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Condemnation grows over Turkish air strike that killed nine in Kobani
A Turkish drone strike on the village of Barkh Botan in Kobani (Kobanê) on Sunday, which killed nine members of ...
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Ömer Öcalan reveals details of his October meeting with Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan
Ömer Öcalan, Şanlıurfa (Riha) deputy of the People's Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) and nephew of Abdullah Öcalan, has made ...
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DEM Party deputy Ömer Öcalan criticises trustee appointment in Halfeti
Recent developments in Turkey's approach to the Kurdish issue have raised fundamental questions about the course of democratic politics and ...
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Turkey launches fresh investigation against journalists
Kurdish press workers Mehmet Aslan and Erdoğan Alayumat, arrested in a series of raids by Turkish police and accused of ...
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