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Grup Yorum bassist Ibrahim Gökçek dies in hospital
IbrahimGökçek, bassist of the socialist band Grup Yorum, led a death fast protest for 323 days in protest at the state repression against his group
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Ibrahim Gökçek ends the hunger strike
Grup Yorum has announced that Gökçek has ended his action
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Resistance. For Ilhan Comak and all political prisoners in Turkey
İlhan Sami Çomak, who was born in 1973, was arrested as a young student in 1994. There is currently a campaign and increased publicity to try and get this poet released
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New call for the release of Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Çomak jailed in Turkey for 26 years
Turkey counts so many political prisoners (there are currently up to 70,000 students in jail) that it can be easy to get human rights fatigue when reporting on the country
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Outrage – and More Outrage …Lest we forget Hevrîn Khalaf
On 12 October 2019, Hevrîn Khalaf and her driver were killed by Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya mercenaries near the M4 Motorway as part of the Turkish military invasion «Operation Spring Peace»
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Turkey: Decision to re-arrest writer Ahmet Altan a scandalous injustice
Ahmet Altan has committed no crime. He was released last Monday, following a unanimous court decision. His three years of pre-trial detention are a travesty of justice as is the sentence imposed on him.
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“Turkey seeks to open new lands for ISIS to prolong its life”
The General Command of the Military Councils in Al-Jazeera region called on human rights organizations, the European Union and the United Nations to take an anti-invasion stand
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Against Erasure: Art and Sudan’s Sit-in
More than 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in the government’s June 3 attack on a sit-in in Khartoum
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Turkey – Damned Again…
Turkey has continued to move further away from the European Union,” noted the commission in its annual report on enlargement, the European Commission’s report on Ankara’s progress towards membership
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Why are Colombian indigenous peoples protesting against President Ivan Duque?
Indigenous people are leading a mass movement in Colombia
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