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Women head to evacuate the wounded arrested

15:22 12/02/2016 1

Cizre women headed through the neighborhood under white flags in an attempt to reach the wounded in third ‘basement of savagery’. Turkish state forces stopped and arrested them.

2 journalists arrested in Nusaybin

14:50 12/02/2016 3

French Photojournalist Gael Cloarec and Siyasihaber.org reporter Duygu Yıldız were arrested and forced into an armored vehicle while covering the news in Nusaybin.

Women: We are not ashamed of our nakedness, you should

14:32 12/02/2016 9

Women reacted to a woman was killed and her naked body was put on display in Cizre like in Varto district of Muş. Women said, “You cannot reduce us to silence by putting on display the naked ...

Children build barricades in Nusaybin

11:28 12/02/2016 19

Nusaybin is one of the town in Kurdistan where the self-goverment declared. Children build barricades to not be killed in the town. Children in Nusaybin grow up with the stories of their sisters and ...

Peace Mothers: We won't say 'peace' anymore

10:20 12/02/2016 1

“We have called for peace for years; we even named our children after peace. But they have carried out genocide against us,” said members of the Peace Mothers Assembly in the city of Adana. ...

In Sur again, 4 months later

09:50 12/02/2016 9

It was October 15 when I was last in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. It was just before the November 1 election and just after the “curfews” and deaths. Four months later, I was back in Sur, ...

Attacks continue in Cizre

16:47 11/02/2016 1

Minister of Interior, Efkan Ala announced, "The operations were ended in Cizre". However, the attacks on the building where the wounded have taken refuge in the besieged town of Cizre, have ...

Southern Kurdistan women call for resistance not 'silence'

13:54 11/02/2016 4

Women who live in Federal Kurdistan Region condemned the massacres in the Cizre district of Şırnak which was carried out by Turkish State. The women drew attention to the silence of the ...

Woman's dead body put on display

12:54 11/02/2016 3

The AKP's special war machines have commited a crime against humanity in Cizre. A new photograph of a killed and naked woman in Cizre shared on social media like in Varto.

Lale Mansur: If Emine Erdoğan was born in Cizre, her son could be in basement

10:38 11/02/2016 2

The artists Lale Mansur and Feryal Öney reacted the massacre in Cizre basement. Lale Mansur who went to Sur, Diyarbakır province before, pointed out what means born in Kurdistan. Lale said, "If ...

A youth killed in Yüksekova

09:19 11/02/2016 7

State forces attacked the neighborhoods of Yüksekova, Hakkari province last night. A youth named Osman Alıcı was killed in the attacks. State forces attacked the Esentepe, Esenyurt and Güngör ...

66 killed so far in Cizre’s ‘basements of savagery’

18:04 10/02/2016 1

Dozens of dead bodies have been removed from basements in the town of Cizre that came under attack by Turkish state forces. There is still no word from many of the wounded, facing summary execution ...

Derya Koç: ‘We can’t breathe from the gas’

15:59 10/02/2016 1

In a basement in the Sur neighborhood of the besieged town of Cizre, 20 have been burned to death and 25 wounded residents are facing execution at the hands of state forces. Derya Koç, among those ...

Women march toward besieged basement with white flags

15:22 10/02/2016 5

In the town of Cizre, under siege by Turkish state forces, 10 women have set out under white flags for a building where at least 20 were burned to death in a state attack earlier today and 15 wounded ...

Soldiers kill Rojavan child at border

14:56 10/02/2016 1

Turkish soldiers have killed two Rojavans—a 10-year-old girl and a 36-year-old man—at the border of Efrîn Canton.

Jailed women co-mayors: ‘Speak up for humanity’

13:28 10/02/2016 6

Six women co-mayors of Kurdish towns and cities imprisoned in Turkey have issued a statement calling for the world to speak out against the massacres and blockades in Kurdistan.

Message from basement of savagery: ‘we can be killed any minute’

12:32 10/02/2016 3

It has emerged that a large number of people have been killed in a basement in the Sur neighborhood of the besieged town of Cizre. Our agency has reached Derya Koç, former Peoples’ Democratic ...

A third ‘basement of savagery’ emerges in Cizre

12:20 10/02/2016 2

Yet another report of a “basement of savagery” has emerged in Cizre. It has emerged that 50 people trapped in a basement in the Sur neighborhood have been attacked by state forces, with between ...

In Izmir, 2 women sexually assaulted under arrest

11:39 10/02/2016 2

The group Peace Bloc attempted to present a press statement yesterday in Izmir, Turkey to condemn the massacre in the town of Cizre. Police attacked the crowd, arresting and sexually assaulting two ...

In Cizre, a new legend of Mem and Zîn

11:21 10/02/2016 4

Derya Tağ left the besieged town of Cizre on the 16th day of the siege with her two children. Her husband Hasan, who stayed behind, is among the wounded in a basement in Cizre. Derya compared their ...