Tag "Kurdistan"
Back to homepage
HDP Demirtaş sentenced to five months in prison
Post Views: 60 While HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ was denied her right to continue as a deputy, HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has been sentenced to 5 months in prison. The sentence was handed down after the hearing
Read More
The Murder of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez TO BE CONTINUED..?
Ömer Güney, the only suspect in the assassination of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in Paris on 9 January, 2013, died on December 17, 2016
Read More
Human Rights Watch, 2017 WORLD REPORT
Human Rights Watch (HRW) have recently launched their World Report 2017 – Events of 2016
Read More
The women revolution of Kurdistan – Sakine Cansiz – Part Two
Years ago, Sakine Cansız had told us about the First PKK Congress and the Kurdish Liberation Struggle
Read More
I lived fighting all my life – Sakine Cansiz- Part One
Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013. Years ago, Sakine had told us about her first years in the Kurdish struggle and her search for a full and free life
Read More
Asli Erdoğan. TEMPORARY RELEASE PENDING TRIAL
After over 4 months Turkish writer and human rights activist Asli Erdoğan was released from Bakirkoy women’s prison in Istanbul
Read More
Suspect in Kurdish Women Murder Dies in Prison
Post Views: 13 Omer Guney, the 34 year-old jailed suspect of the assassination of three Kurdish women activists in Paris in 2013 has died in hospital days before his trial. The only suspect in the killing of Kurdistan Workers Party
Read More
Turkey – Purge in Kurdistan Continues: Artist and Journalist Zehra Doğan Brought to Court
Friday, 9th December 2016, Zehra Doğan, award winning journalist, painter and poet and Jinha Womens News editor was scheduled in court today
Read More
“Displaced and Dispossessed”. Turkey Condemned for Forced Exodus of Kurds from Diyarbakir
Tuesday, 6th December 2016, Amnesty International release their report “DISPLACED AND DISPOSSESSED: SUR RESIDENTS’ RIGHT TO RETURN HOME”.
Read More
Aslı Erdogan, WRITER TO BE TRIED AS “TERRORIST”
Aslı Erdoğan… as of November 25th held for 98 days (along with 70 year old linguist, Necmiye Alpay, held now for 86 days) in Istanbul’s Bakırköy women’s prison in Istanbul
Read More