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...
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...
The following video dates back from the beginning of this year. We republish it as documentation of the grave human rights violations commited by Turkish forces in the Kurdish region. The video shows Turkish forces shooting at a delegation of Kurdish politicians and...