According to the information received from DI Defenders in Turkey, the guards are using excessive force and punitive measures, such as denying prisoners’ access to drinking water, sugar, and vitamins, aiming to force the prisoners to break their hunger strike....
Medical experts have raised alarm over the prisoners’ precarious vulnerability to damaging and life endangering effects of the long strike, now entering its 41th day. We understand that the ongoing hunger strike is a desperate act on the part of prisoners to...
which were launched on 12 September to force the government to “instantly and without condition” provide the circumstances of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan’s freedom, health and security, lift the bans and obstacles over mother tongue and meet/respect...
“Leave this lawlessness to one side and start acting like a government and a state – there is a people in front of you. Look, a Kurdish state is being constructed in the Middle East,” he said during the rally, titled “We won’t be silent...
At least 22 people were killed in clashes between Syrian rebels and Kurdish militia men in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. The fighting broke out despite a truce brokered in honour of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha, which was also broken in other areas of Syria...
EA World View – http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2012/10/28/syria-and-beyond-live-coverage-a-deadly-clash-between-insurg.htmlSunday, October 28, 2012 Joint statement of Salahedin Brigade Syrian Kurds and FSA about incidents in Aleppo, saying Kurds-Arabs...
