Published by Ekurd Daily on 30/8/16 DIYARBAKIR-AMED, Turkey’s Kurdish region,— Turkish authorities should immediately release 23 employees of the Kurdish-language daily newspaper Azadiya Welat detained on Sunday in a police raid of the newspaper’s office, the the NY...
We, intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians and human rights defenders, seek to draw urgent attention to the Turkish state’s invasion in Northern Syria and Rojava. The Turkish army invaded the Northern Syrian City of Jarablus on 24 August 2016, using anti-ISIS...
By: Info-Türk Solidarity with daily Özgür Gündem and its detained or harassed journalists Solidarity also with Ragip Zarakolu, Asli Erdogan, Eren Keskin and Filiz Koçali Daily Özgür Gündem, which has been shut down by court order, has been released as a special...
Turkish state closes largest Kurdish daily newspaper The voice of the Kurds and democrats Ozgur Gundem has been closed down. The daily newspaper Ozgur Gundem, known for its publications on the Kurdish question and democracy in Turkey, has been closed down by the AKP...
Published by The Guardian 27 July 2016 An Islamic State truck bomb has killed at least 44 people, wounded dozens more and flattened several buildings in a largely Kurdish town in northern Syria, human rights groups and state media have reported. The blast in Qamishli...