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Journalist Frederike Geerdink to be deported from Turkey

12:21 09/09/2015 1

Turkish authorities will deport Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink, known for her reporting from Kurdistan.

Women demand life sentence in Özgecan Aslan femicide case

12:14 09/09/2015 7

Women’s groups have headed to the courthouse in the town of Tarsus, Turkey to protest male violence in the second hearing of the high-profile Özgecan Aslan femicide case.

Pregnant women trapped by police blockade on Cizre

12:12 09/09/2015 9

The ongoing Turkish state blockade and of the Kurdish town of Cizre has left pregnant women and infants at risk, women trapped in their homes told JINHA.

Racists on the hunt for Kurds in Turkey

11:51 09/09/2015 15

Racists set fire to the general headquarters of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Ankara while police watched, among dozens of other facist attacks on Kurds and the HDP in Turkey last night.

Death toll rises to 10 in assault on Cizre

11:34 09/09/2015 3

Police and soldiers have killed 10 residents of the Kurdish town of Cizre as a police blockade and curfew in the city enters its sixth day.

Racists attack Kurds, HDP across Turkey

11:46 08/09/2015 7

Since Sunday night, racists have been staging nightly attacks on the left Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and on Kurds across Turkey. Racists killed a young man for speaking Kurdish and looted and ...

Future on ice in Cizre as even funerals are prevented

11:06 08/09/2015 2

After police killed 13-year-old girl Cemile Çağırga in the Kurdish town of Cizre, images of her mother wrapping the body in ice packs while waiting for a police blockade to lift have displayed ...

Children shot again in Cizre

10:40 08/09/2015 2

As the Turkish state continued an assault on the Kurdish town of Cizre yesterday, police shot three children who left their homes to buy bread. All three children were wounded, one seriously, but ...

200 women killed in Turkey in 8 months

10:36 08/09/2015 1

In Turkey, 200 women were killed in the first eight months of 2015, according to a statement by the alliance of Socialist Women’s Assemblies.

Teenage girl shot by police still fighting to survive

10:23 08/09/2015 1

14-year-old Berfin Ökten, shot by police while sleeping next to her mother in the Kurdish town of Silopi, Turkey, remains at risk of death in urgent care.

Women prisoners hold naked protest against strip searches

10:12 08/09/2015 1

In Turkey’s Sincan Women’s Prison, women prisoners are protesting the escalating use of strip searches from their cells with a naked protest.

Proxy co-mayor Azize: ‘we will increase the struggle’

10:10 08/09/2015 3

Azize Erkutlu was assigned as a co-mayor after the arrest of the co-mayors in Diyarbakir’s Sur district. “It should be known: we will increase this struggle with the people,” said Azize.

12-year-old boy shot in Cizre

15:16 07/09/2015 2

A 12-year-old boy has been shot in the stomach as Turkish state forces fire on residents of the Kurdish town of Cizre.

Turkish forces attack Diyarbakır’s Sur district

14:47 07/09/2015 10

Yesterday, Turkish police and soldiers launched an assault on the Sur district in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakır. A JINHA reporter and women’s rights activist were among those wounded in the ...

Teenage girl becomes 8th victim of state violence in one family

14:00 07/09/2015 5

When Turkish state forces killed 13-year-old Cemile Çağırga during an assault on the Kurdish town of Cizre, she became the eighth victim of state violence in her family. Cemile’s father, who had ...

Small baby among dead in massive police assault in Cizre

13:58 07/09/2015 8

Since September 4, the Kurdish town of Cizre, Turkey has been under police assault. A 35-day-old baby and a 13-year-old girl are among seven dead as of this morning.

Rojava woman takes up her children's struggle

11:23 04/09/2015 2

After Rojava woman Bedriye Silêman lost two children in the resistance against Daesh attacks, she has taken up her children's struggle to defend the revolution.

Soldiers trap demonstrators holding civilian anti-war vigil

11:21 04/09/2015 6

On Wednesday, local residents started a civilian vigil aiming to prevent clashes between guerrillas and soldiers in the Veregoz region of Northern Kurdistan (in Turkey). Soldiers have now closed off ...

'Aylan's killers are those who permitted Daesh's rise'

10:15 04/09/2015 6

Gülistan Yalçındağ, a human rights worker with the Human Rights Association in Turkey, commented on the death of the young child Aylan Kurdi, blaming the powerful states who permitted the war on ...

Aylan and Galip to be buried in Kobanê today

09:59 04/09/2015 1

Today, a funeral is scheduled for the two young boys whose bodies were famously photographed washed up on the beach in Turkey.