Published by Al-Monitor, 21 July 2016 DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Diyarbakir was the venue of two important events linked to the Islamic State (IS) in the past 12 months. On June 5, 2015, a bomb blast at a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) rally killed four people....
Published by TIME, 22 July 2016 The coup should not be used as a pretext for rolling back human rights It’s rush hour on Istanbul’s Bosphorus Bridge. Queues of cars jostle for position, the noise of horns fills the air, a young man selling Turkish flags weaves through...
Published by The Independent 21 July 2016 Turkey will temporarily suspend the European Convention on Human Rights after announcing a state of emergency following the attempted coup. Deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Thursday that Turkey would follow the...
Published by The Telegraph 19 July 2016 By Zia Weise and Josie Ensor – Istanbul Turkey’s post-coup crackdown took a sinister turn on Tuesday after tens of thousands of teachers were fired and all the country’s university deans were told they faced suspension....
Written by: Anna Davies and Rêvan Kobanê Anna Davies is working in Rojava on different medical and psychological projects in collaboration with the Kurdish Institute. We are writing this article as two Europeans who are living and working in Rojava. One of us has...
Tuesday July the 5th, was the last day of the Muslim month of Ramadan and on which usually is a day for making preparations for the Ramadan feast, the ISIS terrorists managed again to kill tens of civilians (22) and injure many more in a terrorist attack. The attacker...
