It began with the provincial chairs and mayors of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). It went on with the additional active cadres of the BDP organization and reached another stage by expanding more and more with the authority denying elected deputies to enter the...
Following the arrest of 61-year-old professor and Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Assembly member Büşra Ersanlı and 63-year-old publisher and writer Ragıp Zarakolu, intellectuals have started a campaign they labelled "We are all KCK". KCK (Kurdish...
After the interrogation at the police, all 50 persons were taken to the Istanbul Courthouse on Monday morning. The prosecutor decided to take 47 of them to court with the demand to arrest them.According to lawyer Ercan Kanar, they were interrogated by 12 different...
On October 28, 2011, during a large-scale man-hunt in Istanbul against Kurdish and human rights activists, the Turkish police detained also Ragip Zarakolu, a well-known human rights defender and director of Belge Publishing House. Zarakolu is also the chairman of the...
The 14th High Criminal Court in Besiktas, Istanbul decided earlier today, following a 28-hour long hearing, to incarcerate the man whom many view as Turkey’s most prominent freedom of expression and minority rights activist. In particular, he is being accused of...
A Turkish court on Tuesday decided to put under arrest 44 people, including Publisher Ragip Zarakolu and Prof. Busra Ersanli, on charges of membership in the so-called KCK (Union of Kurdistan Communities). They were among about 50 suspects detained over the...
