Turkey: Protesters rally against trustee takeovers in Bahçesaray, Van
Locals braved freezing temperatures to stage sit-ins and marches outside the municipal buildings in Bahçesaray (Miks), a district of Van ...
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Turkish authorities remove joint mayors in Van’s Bahçesaray municipality raid
On 29 November, Ayvaz Hazır, the joint mayor of Bahçesaray (Miks) in Van (Wan), Turkey, was sentenced to three years ...
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Kurdish-majority cities rise up against trustee policies in Turkey
The Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has reported widespread protests in the Kurdish regions of Turkey against the recent ...
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Women march in Diyarbakır for justice following Rojin Kabaiş’s death
“We have no choice but to continue our struggle,” declared Berfin Polat, a member of the Rosa Women’s Association, as ...
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Turkey detains 30 in crackdown on Kurdish language institutions
Turkey has arrested 30 people, including Kurdish language teachers, in a series of raids on cultural and educational institutions in ...
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Van launches European Mobility Week with bicycle tour and clean-up campaign
Turkey's Kurdish-majority Van (Wan) Metropolitan Municipality has launched European Mobility Week under the theme “Shared Public Spaces.” The event, aimed ...
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Disabled Kurdish woman, 82, released after over eight months in Turkish prison
An 82-year-old sick and disabled woman has been released from a Turkish prison after eight months of incarceration for ‘aiding ...
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Protests across Kurdish regions of Turkey denounce Turkey’s killing of journalists
Protests erupted across several Kurdish-majority regions on Monday, condemning the killing of Kurdish journalists Gülistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn by ...
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DEM Party rejects new animal law: Turkish gov’t ‘enemy of nature’
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has refused to recognise or implement Turkey’s newly passed animal control law, ...
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Journalist faces threats after exposing racist vandalism
The journalist Ruşen Takva, who reported on the 16-year-old child who defaced Kurdish traffic warning signs in the Kurdish-majority city ...
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