Suat Bahadır’s age has been increased in a report from the Istanbul Institute of Forensic Medicine (ATK) from 15 to 22 years and he has been given aggravated life imprisonment twice on charges of “killing someone deliberately due to the …
Posted in Discrimination, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Kurdish Boy Sentenced to Life in Prison Twice Despite Contradictory Age ReportsOn January 12th, 2005 the Turkish Embassy in Denmark filed a complaint against the Kurdish TV-channel Roj TV to the Danish Radio and Television Board for being a mouthpiece for the Kurdish rebel group, PKK. The board rejected the embassy’s …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Media, Trials, Turkey | 5 CommentsOn December 28th, 2011, F-16 warplanes launched an attack on villagers in Roboski village of the Kurdish district of Şırnak in Turkey. On their way back to their village, a group of people, who were transporting cheap fuel into Turkey …
Posted in BDP, Discrimination, Terror, Trials, Turkey | 3 CommentsHanım Onur, the former deputy mayor of Cizre, Şırnak province in the Kurdish region in Turkey, was arrested on the 16th of September 2011 during the KCK operations where Turkish authorities targeted the Kurdish civilian opposition. She spent 18 months in …
Posted in BDP, Free speech, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey | 2 CommentsAzad Tokmak will start a freedom campaign for his mother, Fatma Tokmak, a political prisoner suffering from serious heart diseases in Bakırköy Prison, to get his mother released and continue her treatment outside prison, Zeynep Kuray from Birgün Daily reported. …
Posted in Call to Actions, Campaigns, Discrimination, Health, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Azad Tokmak: “I want my mother alive, not dead!”On May 9, 2010 five political prisoners were executed in Iran, all sentenced with “enmity against God.” Four of them were Kurds: Farzad Kamanger, Shirin Alam Hooli, Ali Heydarian and Farhad Vakili. They fought for the rights of the Kurdish …
Posted in Activism, Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | Comments Off on The Words of Farzad KamangerAmidst the many analyses of what changes the withdrawal of PKK will bring, one important issue is drowning in the political game: The plight of the Kurdish people in Turkey. The impression is that PKK was standing in the way …
Posted in Discrimination, Free speech, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Eyes on Turkey, not the PKKHatice Yaşar, one of the former consultants of the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, has been detained at the Esenboğa Airport where she arrived this morning. She has been arrested after being interrogated by the Istanbul 3rd Court authorized with the …
Posted in Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey | 2 Comments