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Karakoçan co-mayors arrested

12:51 27/01/2016 3

Police and soldiers raided Karakoçan Municipality in Elazığ. 11 people have been taken into custody, including co-mayors Cennet Ayık and Burhan Kocaman.

'Curfew' spreads to 5 neighborhoods in Sur

12:24 27/01/2016 1

Martial law under the name of "curfews" has been imposed in six neighborhoods of Sur for nearly two months. It has spread to five other Sur neighborhoods and Melikahmet Avenue today.

Another death in Cizre basement where dozens are trapped

12:11 27/01/2016 1

As the Turkish state maintains a five-day attack on a house where the wounded have taken refuge in the besieged town of Cizre, another of the wounded, Nusrat Bayer, has died from lack of medical ...

10-year-old Mehmet’s mother never gave him a last hug

11:43 27/01/2016 6

In the town of Silopi, Turkish state forces killed a 10-year-old boy named Mehmet Mete. Police then buried Mehmet secretly without consulting the family. Mehmet’s mother Gurbet said she never got ...

People bid farewell to Şirin Altay, killed in Silopi

11:29 27/01/2016 2

A mortar shell hit Şirin Altay's home in Silopi. She was seriously wounded and sent to Batman Hospital, where she passed away. People bid farewell to her in Silopi yesterday.

U.S. academics: stop martial law onslaught on Kurds

11:19 27/01/2016 6

Five professors, including Judith Butler, have signed a petition calling for the immediate end to the Turkish state’s attacks on its own Kurdish citizens.

Diyarbakır residents of all ages hold vigil for Sur

11:13 27/01/2016 4

For 57 days, Turkish state forces have maintained a total blockade in an attempt to break the resistance in the Sur district of the city of Diyarbakır. At the five vigils set up by citizens around ...

AKP to build ‘moving police posts’ to patrol ‘curfew’ areas

10:52 27/01/2016 6

Women in the city of Van, responding to the Turkish government’s proposal to build “mobile armored patrol posts” to police the Kurdistan region, said that the new policy was only a sign that ...

YPJ commander: 'I believe in YPS-Jin'

10:00 27/01/2016 3

Roza Serhed, one of the commanders in Rojava's Women's Defense Forces, stated that YPS and YPS-Jin have been founded to stop genocide of Kurds and that YPJ-JIN will put up a strong fight.

Cizre women declare intention to evacuate 24 wounded

09:30 27/01/2016 2

Turkish state forces wounded residents of the town of Cizre in a mortar attack on a building five days ago. Since then, they have continually bombed the house, where 24 wounded have taken refuge in ...

8-year-old child wounded in Sur

16:09 26/01/2016 5

Ramazan Bertan(8) has been wounded due to a piece of a shell in the Ziya Gökalp neighborhood in the Sur district of Diyarbakır.

24 wounded Cizre residents under heavy bombing

14:19 26/01/2016 1

In the town of Cizre, four have succumbed to their wounds so far in an apartment building that Turkish state forces have heavily bombarded despite being informed of the presence of wounded civilians ...

12 more women under investigation for March 8 celebrations

13:09 26/01/2016 2

In Mersin, Turkey, the state has opened an investigation into 12 women related to a celebration of March 8, International Women’s Day.

In Nusaybin, life begins behind barricades

12:43 26/01/2016 21

As barricades go up at a rapid pace in the town of Nusaybin, the neighborhood families that survived the region’s bloody 1990s say that “real life is behind the barricades.”

State kills bird lover of Sur, leaves his family homeless

12:15 26/01/2016 7

Halil Tüzülerk was killed by state forces in the Sur district of Diyarbakır as he was feeding the pigeons on the roof. "The state forced us to leave Sur and then [state housing]. They say they ...

Women stay in minus 10 degrees till morning for Sur

10:51 26/01/2016 24

A vigil was started five days ago under the leadership of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to lift the blockade in the Sur district of Diyarbakır. The blockade ...

Man dies in Cizre basement under bombardment

08:44 26/01/2016 1

Yesterday evening, Cizre resident Selami Yılmaz passed away in a basement in the town where he, along with dozens of other wounded residents, have been prevented from receiving medical treatment by ...

Woman resists to reach son under siege

17:11 25/01/2016 1

After Turkish state forces opened fire on Gule Ürün’s son and another young man in the town of Cizre, Gule has successfully evacuated the two youth.

Mother issues call for wounded son in Cizre

16:10 25/01/2016 2

28 citizens were wounded by state forces in Cizre three days ago. Three of them have passed away because they are not permitted by state forces to be evacuated to hospital. 25 wounded remain trapped ...

Prisoners begin 3-day hunger strike

15:35 25/01/2016 1

Prisoners from the PAJK and PKK announced that they will stage a hunger strike in Turkish jails between January 26 and 28 to protest the isolation of the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and state's ...