On 12 September, around 60 prisoners began a hunger strike in seven prisons across Turkey. The hunger strikes were initiated as a protest against the authorities’ longstanding refusal to allow Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan to...
Dear Press Members,We, as the members of the Peace and Democracy Party and as those elected by people’s free will, would like to announce that our society has come to a decisive crossroads. This is a result of the fact that public conscience has not responded to...
In a statement on behalf of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Women’s Liberation Party (PAJK) prisoners on the 58th day of their hunger strike, Deniz Kaya called on Prime Minister Erdogan, the AKP government and relevant ministries to give concrete...
In the letter signed by co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Gültan Kisanak and sent to all provincial and district organizations, BDP called for the “step up of democratic actions to support the fair resistance of prisoners on hunger strike”. BDP...
His uncle Ali was kidnapped by an army-backed death squad known as JITEM (the acronym for the Turkish phrase translating, roughly, as Gendarmerie Intelligence and Anti-Terror Unit) two years later. Mazlum never saw his uncle again, but a former JITEM agent later...
We, as international lawyers representing the undersigned organisations, were yesterday in Silivri to observe the continuation of the trial of our colleagues: 46 Kurdish lawyers and 3 members of their staff. We summarise our concerns around the following issues; The...
