JINHA’s Beritan Canözer on trial for reporter’s notebook
09:45 23/01/2016JINHA reporter Beritan Canözer was arrested on December 12, 2015 for being “excited” while covering a march in Diyarbakır. The charges against Beritan, just released, cite the contents of her ...
Police raid vigil for besieged Sur district
09:22 23/01/2016Turkish state police have raided a tent set up in Diyarbakır’s Sümerpark to hold a vigil for the besieged Sur district.
10 wounded in Cizre house razed by artillery fire
09:17 23/01/2016Turkish state forces continue to maintain violent martial law in the town, firing artillery overnight at inhabited areas. At least 10 have been wounded from artillery fire that struck a house.
40th day of Cizre resistance
15:55 22/01/2016Neighborhoods of the Cizre district of Şırnak continue to be incessantly shelled on the 40th day of the people's resistance. Ferhat Encu, HDP MP, tried to enter the blockaded city. However, he was ...
İsa and Mesut: struggle, death, oppression, eternity side by side
15:37 22/01/2016After Turkish state forces killed İsa Oran and Mesut Seviktek, they prevented the families from retrieving the young men’s bodies for 28 days. Thousands attended a funeral ceremony in Diyarbakır ...
City council members arrested in Diyarbakır
15:12 22/01/2016Türkan Uzan Avşin and Mehmet Ergün, the city council members of Yenişehir Municipality in Diyarbakır, and Baki Öndeş, municipal official, have been taken into custody in house raids.
Journalists: ‘news written from inside a tank is not journalism’
14:37 22/01/2016Journalist associations have held a meeting with their colleagues in Kurdistan today in Diyarbakır. The journalists protested the Turkish state’s violence against their colleagues in the region.
Cizre Co-mayor Leyla İmret arrested
14:29 22/01/2016Leyla İmret, co-mayor of Cizre has been taken into custody.
First report card excitement in Kurdish school
12:45 22/01/2016Children received their report cards at the first Kurdish school in Turkey, Ferzad Kemanger School, and other schools after the completion of the first semester of the 2015-16 school year
Journalists visit Diyarbakır in solidarity
12:03 22/01/2016Professional organizations of journalists came to Diyarbakır to be in solidarity with journalists who work in Diyarbakır under government pressure and attacks.
Êzidî women: Against attacks education and organization
11:09 22/01/2016Condermning state attack against women in Turkey, Êzidî women who live in the Newroz Camp in Rojava said, "Daesh and Erdoğan are targeting the women. Education and organization are important."
Wounded woman Helin evacuated to Cizre hospital
08:30 22/01/2016A state of martial law continues in the town of Cizre. After a group of women went missing attempting to rescue a wounded woman, Helin Öncü, residents evacuated the group and hospitalized Helin.
Women searching for wounded Helin go missing
19:04 21/01/2016Five women have gone missing in the town of Cizre after attempting to retrieve a woman wounded by state security forces in the besieged town.
ECHR issues injunction for wounded woman Helin
18:02 21/01/2016A woman named Helin Öncü was wounded today in the town of Cizre, where Turkish state forces are preventing her from being taken to the hospital. The ECHR has issued an injunction calling for Helin ...
Explosion in Nusaybin
17:59 21/01/2016A violent explosion took place in the town of Nusaybin as a police vehicle was passing by. Gunshots are audible from the area, with ambulances and armored vehicles sent to the area.
Documentary on Sakine Cansız censored twice
12:21 21/01/2016In Istanbul, where organizers have twice tried to hold screenings of a documentary on PKK co-founder Sakine Cansız, police have once again prevented the screening.
The hope entrusted to Cizre’s dark-eyed children - EXCLUSIVE
12:03 21/01/2016“We’ll resist until the leaves open; the rest is easy….” Or so Cizre’s dark-eyed Çavreş would say. He has entrusted that hope to other children now, as it’s not much longer until the ...
Blankets color the barricades in Nusaybin
10:58 21/01/2016The town of Nusaybin continues a months-long resistance against attacks by Turkish state forces. Colorful blankets to protect from attacks have now been hung up over the barricades, lending color to ...
People of Efrîn dance in spite of military aggression
10:43 21/01/2016After Turkish soldiers violated the Rojava border, the people of Efrîn Canton responded by protesting and dancing through the soldiers’ tear gas at the Turkey-Rojava border yesterday.
1 more citizen dies from blood loss in Cizre
09:11 21/01/2016In the town of Cizre, Turkish state forces attacked a group of people attempting to retrieve the wounded and the dead in the Cudi neighborhood. Selman Erdoğan was critically wounded in the attack. ...