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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
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Roboski Massacre: Five Years on, still no Justice
On the night of 28 December 2011 Turkish warplanes carried out a bombing in the district of Uludere/Roboski resulting in the death of 34 civilians, 18 of whom were children
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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
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“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”.
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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 MoreJailed Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan calls on Europe to stand up for its values
Turkish novelist Asli Erdogan has been in jail since August 19 for alleged links to Kurdish militants. She has written an urgent plea for European leaders to speak out against current developments in Turkey
Read MoreFor Asl? Erdo?an
On November 15th, Margaret Atwood writes to Asl? Erdo?an in a Turkish prison: “you are not alone”
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TURKEY: DEALING DEATH BLOW TO DEMOCRACY
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass – a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience – by experience.”
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November in Northern Kurdistan
The Co-chairs and Deputies of the HDP who were detained in a large-scale operation last night
Read MoreDetenidos diputados del HDP
El 4 de Noviembre a la 1.30 de la madrugada (hora local) se allanaron las casas de los parlamentarios del HDP (Partido Democrático de los Pueblos) y de la sede central del partido
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