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Kurds’ Hunger Strike Aims to Open Path to Negotiations: Kurdish Party Co-Chair Tuncel

Kurds’ Hunger Strike Aims to Open Path to Negotiations: Kurdish Party Co-Chair Tuncel

Diğer, ENGLISH 02.09.2016 - 00:40

Pro-autonomy Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-chair Sebahat Tuncel has called the declaration to start an “indefinite hunger-strike” on 5 September a “historic day”. Below are highlights from Tuncel’s interview with DIHA. “Today is a historic day. The Kurdish political movement and democratic forces have come to a decision to endDevam »

Women Prisoners Set Ablaze Wards Against Increasing Oppression

ENGLISH 01.08.2016 - 21:04

As the autocracy of government increases by the OHAL (state of emergency), AKP raises the pressure on political prisoners while reconstructing the bourgeois state institutions. Following the coup attempt, political prisoners who are subjected to increasing oppression, violence and forced displacements, resist against OHAL repressions everyday. In the previous days,Devam »

Women Freedom Forces: Cemre Has Fallen, Spring Is Close

ENGLISH 05.07.2016 - 20:35

29.06.2016 United Freedom Forces fighter Cemre Heval (Eylem Ataş) has been immortalized in combat in the frontmost trenches during the Manbij assault against the gangs. Eylem Ataş who has fought hand to hand in Siluk Front Internationalist Freedom Battalion, in Tishrin assault and many other military operations, who has becomeDevam »

A Private Employment Office Was Destroyed in Istanbul: We Will Not Allow Inhuman Laws to Be Implemented

A Private Employment Office Was Destroyed in Istanbul: We Will Not Allow Inhuman Laws to Be Implemented

ENGLISH 30.04.2016 - 20:23

Aziz Güler Freedom Forces Militia Organization claimed responsibility for the destruction of a private employment office in Avcılar of Istanbul. Responsibility claim is as below: “An establishment performing as a worker trade center under the name of “Private Employment Office” in Cihangir neighbourhood of Avcılar, Istanbul was destroyed by ourDevam »

Vegan Prisoner Osman Evcan Is on Hunger Strike Once Again

Vegan Prisoner Osman Evcan Is on Hunger Strike Once Again

ENGLISH 02.03.2016 - 18:00

Vegan prisoner Osman Evcan is on hunger strike for the 4th time due to not being served vegan food, being subjected to naked search and restricted access to books and communication tools.  Vegan anarchist prisoner Osman Evcan who was forcibly exiled to Silivri No 6 L Type Prison from KocaeliDevam »

Gültan Kisanak: Urgent Call for Solidarity and Action

Gültan Kisanak: Urgent Call for Solidarity and Action

ENGLISH 23.12.2015 - 13:00

T.C. Union of Southeastern Anatolia Region Municipalities In the course of armed conflict that restarted in the Kurdish region of Turkey after general elections in June 2015, 186 civilians most of which are women or children have died so far, hundreds of them were injured and thousands of people were arrested.Devam »

YDG-K (Patriotic Democratic Women’s Youth):  Child saved from forced marriage

YDG-K (Patriotic Democratic Women’s Youth): Child saved from forced marriage

ENGLISH 13.11.2015 - 06:00

17 year-old Zeynep K. was rescued in Cizre on her wedding night as she was about to be forcefully wed, this was following her imprisonment in her home for six months after she had initially refused, at which time she was subjected to physical violence from her brother. The circumstancesDevam »

Weekly Report 18 -25 October 2015

Weekly Report 18 -25 October 2015

ENGLISH 26.10.2015 - 10:29

Turkey Diary Protests against the Ankara massacre were held countrywide. New footages were revealed showing police gassing doctors who were trying to treat the injured moments after the explosions. State security forces attacked commemoration demonstrations and several demonstrators were arrested.   It came to light that the leader of the ISISDevam »

Ankara: Massive Explosions at Peace Rally

Ankara: Massive Explosions at Peace Rally

ENGLISH 11.10.2015 - 00:13

UPDATE, October 13, 2015: Turkish Medical Association revised death toll as 105, declared number of casulties as 53 with 30 people in critical condition. Thousands of people have gathered in Ankara to participate in the Labour, Peace and Democracy Rally that is organized by confederations of trade unions and professional chambersDevam »

Remember 100 Years Of State Terror In Cizre

Remember 100 Years Of State Terror In Cizre

ENGLISH 14.09.2015 - 06:00

While news flow on social media despite the main stream’s blindness, tweet after tweet with photos of demolished houses, hunted children, bodies of civilians in refrigerators, we wonder and ask: ‘Have we done our best to show our solidarity with the people of Cizre?’ Calls for peace, arrested comrades inDevam »