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9th detention on the 10th day of the resistance

15:07 18/11/2016 2

Academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has launched a protest by saying, “I have been suspended from duty, I want my job back” has been detained for ninth time on the 10th day of her protest.

Women employees’ strike action against the appointed trustee

15:00 18/11/2016 2

The appointed trustee to Mardin Metropolitan Municipality has been protested by women’s institutions of the municipality. While the women are launching a strike action, four municipal employees ...

Children to be married to their abusers with the AKP’s proposal

13:35 18/11/2016 3

The AKP presented a proposal to the Parliament. According to this proposal, if a person, who abuses a child, gets married to the child, the person will not be punished. The proposal has been accepted ...

DBP Co-chair Kamuran Yüksek detained in İdil

14:41 17/11/2016 1

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chair Kamuran Yüksek has been detained in İdil while going to Şırnak to meet the people.

Nuriye Gülmen detained for 8th time

14:41 17/11/2016 1

Academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has launched a protest by saying, “I have been suspended from duty, I want my job back” has been detained for eighth time on the ninth day of her protest.

Trustee appointed to Mardin and Siirt municipalities

14:05 17/11/2016 3

Turkish Interior Ministry has appointed trustees to the Mardin Metropolitan Municipality and Siirt Municipality.

Trustee appointed to Dersim Municipality

13:33 17/11/2016 1

Following the arrest of Dersim co-mayors, Turkish Interior Ministry has appointed a trustee to Dersim Municipality.

Şaziye Önder: As female co-mayors, we continue our struggle

13:25 17/11/2016 3

Iğdır Municipality Co-mayor Şaziye Önder, who was arrested and suspended from her duty on the grounds that she participated in the human shield action against the operations launched in 2011, ...

Trustee appointed to Van Metropolitan Municipality

13:04 17/11/2016 1

Governor of Van İbrahim Taşyapan has been appointed as trustee to Van Metropolitan Municipality following police raid on the building of the municipality in the morning. Police attacked the people ...

The price of not leaving her land: life imprisonment!

09:49 17/11/2016 2

A case has been opened against Nurşen Demir, who had been detained and then imprisoned for not leaving her home during the curfews imposed in Nusaybin, and life imprisonment is sought for her. ...

Aysel Doğan also detained

09:47 17/11/2016 1

Aysel Doğan, a member of the Peace Group, cancer patient and passed her 17-year in prison, has also been detained in operation launched against co-mayors and politicians in Dersim.

Struggle against lack of water in Fatihpaşa Neighborhood

13:13 16/11/2016 4

Water supply has been cut off in the Fatih Paşa Neighborhood of Diyarbakır’s Sur district for three days. Women, whose houses will be pulled down by expropriation law, complain that the water has ...

Özgür Gündem Dungeon read from hand to hand

12:45 16/11/2016 4

Women in Mardin Prison have created Özgür Gündem Dungeon against oppression on the press. The second issue of the Özgür Gündem Dungeon reached to Dicle University students. “It gives us ...

Curfew and destruction continue in Nusaybin

15:20 14/11/2016 4

Destruction in the neighborhoods of Mardin’s Nusaybin district, where curfew has been imposed for months, continues.

Attack on suspended teacher’ protest: 6 people detained

14:48 14/11/2016 1

Teacher and member of Eğitim Sen Acun Karadağ tried to launch a sit-in protest in front of her school; however, police didn’t allow her and detained Acun and five other people.

Academician Nuriye Gülmen detained for 5th time!

14:04 14/11/2016 1

Being dismissed by KHK decree, research assistant Nuriye Gülmen have been detained for fifth time today by being battered.

Prison sentence sought for Delila’s mother

14:03 14/11/2016 1

A case was opened against Gülsuma Güçer, mother of the YJA Star member Delila, for giving an interview on curfew declared in Silvan to Hasan Cemal. Nine-year prison sentence is sought for ...

HDP-DBP provincial buildings demolished in Şırnak

12:45 14/11/2016 1

The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Region Party (DBP) buildings, parks and gardens were demolished in destruction during the curfew imposed in Şırnak.

‘We must stay strong in everywhere’

12:10 14/11/2016 1

Women's Initiative for Peace (BİKG) member Feride Eralp, evaluated the closure of 370 NGOs by KHK decree and said, “Now, a government that doesn’t want women, men and the state to be strong, is ...

Photographs of destruction in Şırnak where curfew lifted

10:57 14/11/2016 5

While the people have begun to return to Şırnak, where the curfew has been lifted, the city is still being destroyed. The people cannot even find their homes due to the destructions in seven ...