Turkish police threaten teenage girl with "Daesh"
10:07 24/08/2015Turkish police told a 17-year-old girl that "we'll give you to ISIS if you don't talk" as part of torturing her under arrest.
'Self-government means an end to police killings'
11:39 22/08/2015Women from the neighborhood assemblies that have been declaring self-government in Kurdistan explained that their action aims to stop police violence.
Diyarbakır neighborhood under police blockade
11:36 22/08/2015Since yesterday evening, Turkish police have been violently attacking Diyarbakır's Hasırlı neighborhood. Casualties are reported.
'Êzidî women must be on the agenda at World Women's Congress'
11:35 22/08/2015Trauma expert and feminist Ulrike Held has called for the situation of Êzidî women to be at the top of the agenda for women.
Camp Armen resistance grows through solidarity
10:44 22/08/2015Kurdish LGBTI activist Siyabend Kurdi says attacks can't stop the solidarity at Istanbul's Camp Armen resistance.
'Human shield' action begins in Şenyayla
10:32 22/08/2015Civilians have headed to the Şenyayla area to stop clashes as antiwar "human shield" actions spread in Northern Kurdistan (Turkey).
Walkout action spreads across Kurdistan
10:21 22/08/2015In Diyarbakır, local people started walking out of work for five minutes every day to protest war. The action has now spread to other Kurdish cities in Turkey.
Newspaper nefariously misquotes Kurdish woman politician
09:59 22/08/2015A newspaper close to Turkey's ruling AKP has misquoted Kurdish woman politician Emine Ayna as advocating armed struggle. The newspaper has declined to issue a correction.
Turkish jets bomb Kurdish villages again
09:47 22/08/2015Several Kurdish villages have been bombed as Turkish jets resumed airstrikes in the Kandil region of Kurdistan.
At 66 years old, still a freedom fighter
09:40 22/08/2015Kifah Khalil Efendi, 66, has proven that the struggle for freedom knows no age: Kifah serves as a member of the revolutionary defense forces in Rojava.
Police brutality against Peace Mothers in Adana
09:36 22/08/2015Police wounded three Peace mothers in the Turkish city of Adana by pushing them along the ground for several meters with a water cannon. Many children were also affected by the attack.
Women's unemployment on the rise in Turkey
11:26 21/08/2015With 85,000 more young women left unemployed in Turkey over the last year, economists say unemployment will likely only continue rising in the country.
'The more you kill, the more Kurdish women will resist'
11:19 21/08/2015Çağlar Demirel, a representative of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey's Parliament, has been observing police and military attacks in the Kurdish towns of Silvan and Lice. Çağlar said ...
Overnight vigil to stop clashes in Lice
10:47 21/08/2015Civilians spent last night in the area of clashes in the largely Kurdish Lice district in the hopes of stopping the fighting.
Two children wounded in Nusaybin explosion
10:43 21/08/2015Three people, two of them children, have been wounded in an explosion at a bridge in the largely Kurdish town of Nusaybin.
State killings of children on the rise in Turkey
10:35 21/08/2015Children's rights advocate Emrah Kırımsoy says that killings of children and impunity around them have been on the rise in Turkey, with the assassination of two teenage boys in the town of Diyadin ...
Women call for conscientious objection against war in Turkey
10:24 21/08/2015Women must declare their conscientious objection to war in Turkey in order to stop the ongoing massacres, according to conscientious objector Pınar Demir.
Intelligence officers admit to following JINHA reporters
10:22 21/08/2015After JINHA journalists filed a police report about a car that followed them closely, it has emerged that the car belonged to police intelligence officers.
Political prisoners on hunger strike
09:38 21/08/2015PKK and PAJK political prisoners in Turkey are now on the sixth day of their indefinite hunger strike.
Diyarbakır residents stage walkout against war
09:29 21/08/2015In the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakır yesterday, residents started the first day of what will be a daily walkout to protest war in Turkey.