New Turkish policy denies right to bury loved ones
15:11 16/01/2016In Diyarbakır, Turkey, the families of four young people killed by state forces in the Sur district are on the 15th day of a hunger strike, demanding that the state turn over the bodies for burial. ...
Police attack people in Siirt
15:05 16/01/2016Five people were killed in Siirt yesterday. When the people went to take the dead bodies, police attacked them with tear gas and water cannons. MP Besime Konca was insulted.
Children of Sur paint as artillery booms
14:45 16/01/2016In the İskenderpaşa neighborhood of Diyarbakır’s Sur district, where a de facto curfew is in effect, children painted pictures of war and peace today as the sounds of tanks and artillery boomed ...
YPS-Jin declared in Diyarbakır
14:31 16/01/2016Women in Diyarbakır have announced the foundation of the Women’s Civil Defense Units (YPS-Jin).
2 killed children buried in Cizre
14:26 16/01/2016Three children were wounded in a shelling attack on a house in Cizre two days ago.Yusuf Akalın(12) and Büşra Akalın(10) who passed away yesterday were buried by their families.
‘Sêvê never gave in to state oppression’
14:00 16/01/2016As Turkish state attacks against young and old, women and men mounted in the besieged town of Silopi, woman politician Sêvê Demir never abandoned the people, even for a moment. On the evening of ...
Women on hunger strike: Everyone should speak out
13:56 16/01/2016Women started a two-day hunger strike in Adana to protest the blockades and ongoing killing in Kurdistan. Stressing the silence in the west of Turkey,women said, "We call on the public to respond."
Van women learn self-defense with taekwondo
13:18 16/01/2016In the city of Van, women are learning to defend themselves with self-defense at the Rojin Women’s Life Center. Taekwondo instructor Aryen Duman explained that the course aims to help women defend ...
Body of woman assassinated in Kızıltepe still in morgue
13:03 16/01/2016After state forces conducted a summary execution of four people in the town of Kızıltepe, the body of an unidentified woman victim of the attack is being kept in the morgue.
Turkey presents ongoing killings to ECtHR as 'conflicts'
10:45 16/01/2016ÖHD (Association of Free Lawyers) has filed a complaint at the ECtHR against the onslaughts which broke out after the declaration of "curfews" in Kurdistan. ÖHD lawyer Oya Aydın said, "Turkey ...
DIHA reporter arrested
10:23 16/01/2016Yasin Kobulan, a reporter for the news agency DIHA, has been arrested in Diyarbakır.
2 dead in Sur
10:20 16/01/2016In the Sur district of Diyarbakır, now in the 46th day of a blockade by state forces, two individuals have passed away.
‘Only a weak state attacks academic freedom’ say women academics
10:14 16/01/2016As a mass investigation targets over 1,000 academics who signed the statement “We will not be party to this crime,” condemning the Turkish state’s attacks on Kurdistan, women and feminist ...
‘We are enraged with everyone and everything that took Rozerin’
17:39 15/01/2016A week after 17-year-old Rozerin Çukur was slain in the Sur district of Diyarbakır, her body has still not been retrieved. Rozerin’s friends have made a statement calling for an end to the ...
Academics detained across Turkey
17:26 15/01/2016Today, dozens of academics across Turkey were detained in morning raids on their homes and offices. As university rectors dismissed and launched investigations into other academics, fascist groups ...
Feminist activists call Sêvê, friends ‘real feminists’
17:02 15/01/2016Feminist activists have sent their condolences to the women’s organization KJA after activists Sêvê Demir, Pakize Nayır and Fatma Uyar were slain in Silopi.
At least 6 wounded in mortar attack on Cizre
14:07 15/01/2016At least six citizens have been wounded as Turkish state forces attacked the Şah neighborhood in the town of Cizre with mortars today.
Prisoners go on hunger strike in Siirt
12:01 15/01/2016PKK and PAJK prisoners held in Siirt E Type Closed Prison have started a three-day hunger strike.
Citizen wounded in Sur
11:30 15/01/2016Yesterday night, Kadir Tozan was heavily wounded in the Sur district, where a curfew has been imposed for 44 days.
Another wounded child dies in Cizre
11:10 15/01/201610-year-old Büşra Akalın, one of three children wounded in Cizre yesterday, has passed away.