The state that turned out to be the mafia
Sara Aktaş "When the Susurluk scandal blew up in 1990s, relations between politics, the mafia and the state were revealed ...
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Daily oppressions – a weekly news review
Sarah Gylnn Most Kurds could have told you that Turkish politics was no stranger to illegal activity, with close links ...
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Sit-in protest against Turkey’s operations continues in Strasbourg
A sit-in protest against Turkey's military operations in Iraqi Kurdistan continues in front of the Council of Europe building in ...
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Turkish gendarmarie threatens villagers protesting marble quarry project
Villagers are protesting against a marble quarry which is due to be built in the village of Yurtbaşı (Şêxan) in ...
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Women political prisoners in Turkey urge EU states to recognise Kurdish language
The Kurdish language has been denied and banned in Turkey as part of discriminatory state policies towards the Kurds. The ...
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Sister asks where are her brothers after mob boss Sedat Peker exposes murders ordered by state
After a convicted mobster boss Sedat Peker confessed to murders committed on demands of some Turkish state officials during the ...
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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says YPJ’s female fighters ‘changed the course of the history’
Silava Efrîn (Meryem Mihemed) and Bêrîvan Qelender (Xemgîn Nûcan), two fighters of Women's Defense Units (YPJ), lost their lives eight ...
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Turkish soldiers raked Kurdish villagers with gunfire, four villagers detained
Soldiers and village guards raked Kurdish villagers with gunfire, who were protesting against a marble quarry intended to be built ...
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HDP’s Buldan called on to Davutoğlu : ‘Speak about the groups who ended the peace process’
HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan answered the questions of journalist Erdal Er from Medya Haber TV and shared her evalutions regarding ...
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Turkey: Kurds return to burnt villages after long years away
Village burnings and forced displacement of people in eastern Turkey were common practices in Turkey in the 1990s, connected with ...
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