Kawa Garmyani, a 32 year-old journalist in Southern Kurdistan’s Kelar town was fatally shot in his own home. Recently, he wrote several critical articles about Kurdish politicians and uncovered inci...
Two people were yesterday killed in clashes with Turkish police in the district of Gever (Yüksekova) in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey). Protesters were demonstrating against ongoing attacks...
Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) has recently issued a press release about its research on ill prisoners in Turkey. It states that as of November 3rd, there are 544 ill prisoners in Turki...
The International Campaign to Ban Land Mines (ICBL) released its annual report for 2013, stating that Turkey has been slow to fulfill its obligation under article 5, concerning the destruction of anti...
On November 16, Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, uttered the word “Kurdistan” in public when he was giving a speech in the Kurdish city of Amed, its official name being Diya...
United Nation’s Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment states in its first pr...
We have spoken about the plight and struggles of Kurdish people for decades. Numerous academic literature has been published, reports announced, and condemnations expressed of the horrific ordeal that...
Ahmet Kaya was born in the autumn of 1957 in Malatya. Soon after the 1970 coup in Turkey, Ahmet’s family immigrated to Istanbul in hope of better job opportunities. His interest in singing at an ear...