Öcalan’s historic appeal kickstarts Kurdish Newroz celebrations with renewed calls for peace
This year's Newroz celebrations, with the slogan, Rêbertiya Azad Civaka Demokratîk - (Leadership and Freedom for a Democratic ...
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Multiple arrests in nationwide raids targeting lawyers and party members in Turkey
Police detained scores of people, including lawyers, political party members and activists, in a series of early morning operations in ...
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Kurdish politicians call for investigation into Cizre deaths
Kurdish politicians and community leaders in Kurdish-majority city of Cizre (Cizîr), southeast Turkey, gathered on Friday to mark the anniversary ...
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Journalists’ killings add to Turkey’s war crimes record
Turkey faces renewed international scrutiny following the deaths of journalists Cihan Bilgin and Nazım Daştan, who were targeted and killed ...
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DEM Party’s Ayşegül Doğan: ‘A new Middle East is being shaped’
Ayşegül Doğan, a representative of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) party and parliamentarian for Şırnak (Şırnex) in the ...
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Lawyer exposes judicial bias enabling violence against women in Turkey
Women in Şırnak (Şirnex) face mounting violence exacerbated by judicial impunity, especially in cases involving Turkish state officials, according to ...
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Environmental ‘warfare’: Şırnak Ecology condemns state-backed mining in Kurdish areas
The Şırnak (Şirnex) Ecology Platform has condemned extensive environmental destruction in Turkey’s Şırnak region, accusing the Turkish state of using ...
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Turkish soldiers detain peace activists and journalists in raid
In a forceful intervention, Turkish soldiers disrupted a peaceful demonstration organised by the human rights activists Peace Mothers in Silopi ...
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Pro-government ‘village guards’ attack tribespeople in Kurdish region, killing sheep
A land dispute between Turkey’s Jirkî and Spertî tribes has turned violent in the village of Dönmezler (Berê Derya) of ...
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Ecocide in Kurdish regions of Turkey as green landscapes give way to concrete military outposts
Extensive deforestation is paving the way for the construction of military outposts, resulting in an ecological disaster in the Kurdish-majority ...
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