Women-led Efrîn Canton turns 2
14:16 29/01/2016Efrîn Canton co-chair Hêvî Mistefa, reflecting on two years of the canton’s self-government project, said that the Rojava revolution provides a historic example of women’s participation in ...
Child dies after rocket attack on school
13:10 29/01/2016A 12-year-old wounded in Kilis, Turkey when a rocket was fired at a school playground has passed away.
Anna-Sara Malmgren questions silence on Turkey’s state terror
12:50 29/01/2016Turkey’s human rights abuses in Kurdistan “should be enough to spark a worldwide outcry,” said Stanford University philosophy professor Anna Malmgren, among the authors of a recent petition ...
Overnight artillery fire rocks wounded in Cizre basement
10:41 29/01/2016For seven days, a group of wounded Cizre residents have been trapped in a basement in the town as Turkish state forces bombard the building. Last night, Turkish state forces maintained a nightlong ...
Woman in resistance: ‘son, your mother is coming’
10:28 29/01/2016As thousands resisted a police assault in their attempt to reach the besieged town of Cizre yesterday, stone-throwing mothers led the resistance. “Hold on, your mothers are on the way,” said the ...
Botan Marchers resist daylong assault
09:24 29/01/2016When a group of marchers attempted to march to the blockaded city of Cizre yesterday, police and soldiers attacked. The marchers resisted with slogans and stones until yesterday evening.
Police attack marchers for Cizre again
15:56 28/01/2016As a group attempts to march to the besieged town of Cizre to protest the blockade, soldiers have launched a second attack on the group. Three are wounded so far.
Death toll rises to 6 in Cizre basement
14:09 28/01/2016One of the 23 wounded in the basement passed away in Cizre, under martial law under the name of "curfew." State forces have continued to shell the Cudi and Sur neighborhoods.
Berfin Women’s Center: ‘no woman is safe here’
14:07 28/01/2016Workers at the Berfin Women’s Information Center in the province of Siirt report that with the Turkish state’s escalating blockades on Kurdistan, they have recorded a rise in violence against ...
Occupation of maiden's tower for Cizre
12:05 28/01/2016The Revolutionary Party has occupied Istanbul's famous Maiden's Tower to protest the martial law in Cizre.
Women’s labor feeds Rojava village, builds women’s independence
11:39 28/01/2016In the Rojava village of Banê Qesrê, local woman Letife Xelef has started her own bread business and says that women can develop their own economic independence.
Istanbul women stage 3 a.m. action for right to city streets
11:09 28/01/2016After a 3:00 a.m. rape of a 19-year-old woman in Istanbul drew social media comments asking “why should a girl be out at that hour?” Istanbul women staged an action at 3:00 a.m. to declare that ...
Women field workers of Ortaklar want to work their own land
10:39 28/01/2016The seasonal agricultural workers of Ortaklar, in Turkey’s western province of Aydın, first arrived in the area as the children of forced migration. The women said that while they love the earth, ...
Urban transformation project attacks communal memory in Sur
10:37 28/01/2016Sur district is the oldest settlement in Diyarbakır. The Sur walls (the fortress) and the Hevsel Gardens, a green link between the city and the Tigris, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list ...
Rojava’s first revolutionary project, Dêrik Women’s House
09:55 28/01/2016The Dêrik Women’s House, among the first projects of the revolution in Rojava, is celebrating five years of serving women in the city.
Communication cut with wounded in Cizre house
09:30 28/01/2016Communication has been cut with 23 wounded Cizre residents taking shelter in a house since armored vehicles assaulted the house yesterday afternoon.
MPs start hunger strike for Cizre wounded
08:30 28/01/2016Three representatives in Turkey’s Parliament, from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have started a hunger strike in protest of the Turkish state’s broken promise to allow the group of 23 ...
Residents of Sur resist forced migration
16:45 27/01/2016Today, Turkish state forces extended the 24-hour curfews in effect in many parts of the Sur district of Diyarbakır to even more of the district. As police attacked with heavy weapons, wounding two, ...
State forces open fire on wounded as ambulances set out
15:13 27/01/2016For five days, Turkish state forces have heavily bombarded a house in the town of Cizre where dozens of wounded citizens were trapped. As two ambulances set out today to retrieve the 23 surviving ...
Police attack popular march to Sur
13:53 27/01/2016As the city of Diyarbakır shut down in a day of action for the besieged district of Sur today, police attacked a popular march to Sur.