Published by Turkey Purge on October 20, 2016 The chairman of Ottoman Hearths 1453, Emin Canpolat, has called on all supporters of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to take up arms in the event of a second coup attempt in...
European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini 2016 davos. Photo: Courtesy/European External Action Service ISTANBUL,— Top European Union officials have voiced concern over the detention of two leading Kurdish political figures in the...
“Because of the state of emergency, nobody will care if I kill you. I will just say I shot you while you tried to run away.” -Police officer to a detainee, overheard by family members of another detainee “You won’t make it out of here alive. We now...
Published by ARA News on October 27, 2016 US Secretary for Defence Ashton Carter said that the battle for Raqqa would start within weeks, and Syrian Kurds confirmed they are ready to join the offensive on the Islamic State’s (ISIS) capital. Aldar Xelil, a member of...
Last night the co-mayors of Diyarbakir City Council, Ms. Gültan Kışanak and Mr. Fırat Anlı, were detained and their houses and the city council buildings were searched. This is an extremely unlawful and arbitrary practice. The Erdoğan-AKP government is continuing to...
October 26, 2016 The capture of Kurdish mayors is an attack on Kurdish democratic self-rule. It has been a long time that the AKP government (R.T. Erdogan), epitomising the Turkish state and the classic politics of the Turkish Republic, has launched a multi-faceted...
