The use of the word “Kurdistan” has once again become a matter of heated discussion in Turkey as the Kurdish people are increasingly targeted by leading Turkish political figures and the Turkish legal system. Most...
Turkey claims that she does not hate Kurds but hate terrorists. This for many Kurds in Turkey would not be a true statement as they experience otherwise in everyday life. Turkey has used anti-terror measures...
Ayse Celik, a teacher living in the city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, will go to prison on April 20 with the accusation of “terrorist propaganda” for saying, “don’t let children die,” on a popular...
A groom was arrested on his way to his wedding, in Turkeys Diyarbekir province. The groom was accused of insulting president Erdogan on social media posts/messages. The groom got sentenced to prison for three years...
With specially selected groups under the guise of “aiding refugees”, the AKP regime wants to change the demographic structure in North Kurdistan and turn the region into a military barracks. There are reports that hundreds...
Opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-leader Selahattin Demirtas and other Kurdish prisoners ended a 35-day hunger strike in Edirne Prison after authorities promised to resolve issues relating to prison conditions and rights violations. Demirtas and another HDP lawmaker Abdullah...
PKK Executive Committee member, Murat Karayilan, told the PKK’s media wing on Wednesday that PKK fighters are completely prepared for any fight against Turkish forces in the Qandil Mountains. “The Turkish government and army failed in the...
Are Turks really fighting ISIS? The reporter reveals that when you try to search the war declared by Turkey against ISIS in the so-called operation Euphrates Shield you come up empty handed; no photos of corpses of combatants...
Voice of America reports that Turkish political instability will likely add to questions in Moscow over Ankara. “They [Moscow] are aware of the difficulties faced by Turkey,” notes Haldun Solmazturk, head of the Ankara-based research...
Much has been written about the Turkish leader over the decades. He first came to the attention of Western countries in the early 1990s as mayor of Istanbul, an Islamist leading what was then perceived...