A State Department spokesperson, for the first time since the Trump administration took power, expressed ‘concerns’ regarding pro-Kurdish HDP co-chair MP Figen Yüksekdağ’s situation after she was unseated from Parliament on February 21st. On the...
On 3 August 2016 Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, started preliminary negotiations regarding the issue...
“The United States, Turkey along with local forces, civilian forces, the FSA [Free Syrian Army] and other militias… they are at the forefront while we are at the back,” Yıldırım told reporters at the conference...
Orhan Uzuner,the father-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son Bilal, has established an armed group to mobilize the public in the event of a new coup attempt, according to a story in the Cumhuriyet daily...
For many years, it was illegal to use W, Q and X letters in Turkey. These letters do not exist in Turkish alphabet, but since they exist in Kurdish alphabet, Turkey tried for many years...
“The AKP wants to prevent Turkey from democratization with its attacks on Kurdish people. AKP’s new hegemony is possible if Turkey does not democratize and this is why the AKP has linked its power to...
With Euphrates Shield, Turkey may have thrown itself into a Syrian quagmire. It has no clear exit strategy and only a poor set of options for escalation. Turkey seems committed to an indefinite but precarious...
West Human Rights Association in a study reports that so far 22000 hectares of land belonging to the people, have been expropriated. The borders of the wall of which Turkey is building along southern border...
According to twitter accounts and images coming out of Nusaybin inside Turkey, Turkish army is burning houses to quell HDP and resistance member of community. Source http://www.anfenglish.com/kurdistan/execution-torture-and-mass-detention-in-nusaybin-s-xerabe-bava-village...
According to Hengaw news, two brothers were hanged with charge of having connections with Komala party. Hossein Salehi and Isaac Salehi were hanged in Ilam, one of the Kurdish cities of Iran. Source http://hengaw.info/fa/2017/02/18/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%AF%D9%88-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%AA/...