The first reaction to today’s operation and the arrest of some 100 people, came from BDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtas who remarked that they targeted the "channel" between Asrin Law Office (the office of Kurdish leader Öcalan’s lawyers) and...
The ongoing war against the freedom struggle of the Kurds has led to thousands of political prisoners, thousands of casualties, displaced people and burnt villages but European and International community yet to challenge all these violations. On 22 October 2011,...
The prisoners were hanged in the early morning of 20th November in the prison of Brujn city in the province of Cheharmahal Bekhtyari. They were both charged with rape.Including this case, 530 people have been hanged in Iran since the beginning of the 2011...
Suspicious deaths, murders and suicides of women have run high in South Kurdistan, an absolute male dominant territory which doesn’t punish violence against women. The Committee for Struggle against Violence on Women has reported that 1,012 women have set...
In a move designed to keep the image of an understanding and ready-to-face-the-past Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has today apologised for the 1937 Dersim massacre. It is interesting to note how "selective" are the public apologies of the PM. Indeed...
Coordination of PJAK regarded the relentless bombardments as savage and called upon the Kurdish groups to evaluate the current Turkish offensive correctly. It also called upon them to take appropriate stance and strengthen national unity in response.“Our...
