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JINHA’s Beritan Canözer on trial for reporter’s notebook

09:45 23/01/2016 2

JINHA 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 23/01/2016 5

Turkish 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 23/01/2016 1

Turkish 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 22/01/2016 1

Neighborhoods 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 22/01/2016 32

After 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 22/01/2016 3

Türkan 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 22/01/2016 4

Journalist 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 22/01/2016 1

Leyla İmret, co-mayor of Cizre has been taken into custody.

First report card excitement in Kurdish school

12:45 22/01/2016 24

Children 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 22/01/2016 9

Professional 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 22/01/2016 4

Condermning 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 22/01/2016 2

A 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 21/01/2016 3

Five 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 21/01/2016 1

A 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 21/01/2016 3

A 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 21/01/2016 1

In 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 7

“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 21/01/2016 12

The 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 21/01/2016 7

After 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 21/01/2016 1

In 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. ...