ERBIL, Kurdistan region — More than 700 Kurdish prisoners across Turkey have joined a hunger strike in support of the Kurdish cause in that country since September 12, 2012. In a written statement, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Congress (DTK) has called for...
29 OCTOBER, 2012‘ Behind these cold walls we have nothing to sacrifice but our bodies, and we will not refrain from doing this for the freedom of our people and a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue. Our morale is soaring, we are strong and cannot be defeated...
Intellectuals hold the government responsible for deaths nearing in hunger strikes A group of Turkey’s distinguished intellectuals gathered in Istanbul’s Taksim square to draw attention to the strikes yesterday.The government must immediately change its...
At least 180,000 Kurds were killed by Saddam Hussein’s forces. The justice4genocide campaign says many more died in atrocities carried out by regimes from the 1960s onwards. It is petitioning the UK government to declare the mass killing of Kurds...
Colonel Ahmad Nikukhah told ISNA news outlet that the Border Guards of Taybad, Xoy, Urmiye and Meriwan arrested 63 people who intended to inter Iran calling them borders’ transgressors. Colonel Nikukhah also announced the arrest of 15 more people on the borders...
Police equipment in Eruh, south-east Turkey, during a festival marking the 25th anniversary, three years ago, of the start of the Kurdish insurgency. Photograph: Murad Sezer/ReutersWhile many have hailed Turkey as a democratic role model since the start of the Arab...
