21 years have passed away since dengbej (traditional Kurdish story-teller) Ayşe Şan known as “uncrowned queen” died. Ayşe Şan was born in Diyarbakır ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR- Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor's Office has considered the book of poems written by jailed TJA activist Sara Aktaş as “criminal evidence” ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR – Human Rights Watch Rapporteur Emma Sinclair-Webb said that they had prepared a report on rights violations in Turkey and they had submitted ...Read Article
VAN-Nezahat Gür, who produces herbal remedies against rising infections, rheumatism and menstrual pains with rising cold due to the coming of winter season, ...Read Article
MERSİN – Four female members of the Halkevleri (Community Centers) were battered and detained by police while distributing leaflets in Mersin province. Read Article
NEWS CENTER - Cinema Dance Film Festival blending cinema and dance continues in Ankara. Read Article
ANKARA- “The history of struggle on earth shows us that we are not desperate. We left behind the 100th anniversary of the October revolution but new October ...Read Article
VAN-Historic Şamran Canal has been left wide open to diseases due to the insensitivity of the trustee appointed to Van Metropolitan Municipality. Read Article
VAN –HDP Urfa MP Osman Baydemir has been expulsed from parliament for two sessions and fined 12,000 TL for saying ‘Kurdistan’ during the budget debate of ...Read Article
DERSİM-Emine Kıyançiçek, who was the witness of Dersim massacre, passed away. Emine will be buried today in Uzuntarla village of Dersim. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR – “Pressures, restrictions, state of emergency and conflict environment have produced militarism. Consequently, violence against women has been ...Read Article
İSTANBUL - Human Rights Association (İHD) İstanbul Branch Prison Commission requested the release of a 29-year-old patient Pınar Tikit, who has an ...Read Article
DERSİM - 30 regions of Dersim Ovacık, Pülümür, Hozat and Nazimiye districts have been declared as “Special Security Zone” between December 17 and 31. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR/BİTLİS - The curfews, which was declared in the villages of Diyarbakır’s Kulp district and Mutki and Tatvan districts of Bitlis have been ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Pointing out that there is a problem in politics about woman, the state want to remove women from politics, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) MP ...Read Article
ISTANBUL - In the panel called, “Practices of dealing with difficult pasts” organized by by Hrant Dink Foundation and DVV International, the practices of ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - The families in the memory of those, who lost their lives in Sur district of Diyarbakır, organized Islamic memorial service in Kaplan City Park ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR-The 9th Human Rights Film Festival, which was planned to start today within the scope of Human Rights Week, has been prohibited by the Diyarbakır ...Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the people gathering in front of Human Rights Monument to make a statement on the 402th day of “We want our jobs back” action and ...Read Article
İSTANBUL - Pointing that the relation between the pressures in prisons and the isolation imposed on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, Dungeon Solidarity Initiative ...Read Article
ŞIRNAK - The family of one of the citizen, who lost her life when there was a ‘Curfew’ in Cizre, filed a pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage. Interior ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Confederation of Public Employees Trade Union (KESK), Central Governing Committee (MYK) member Gülistan Atasoy, said, “The government uses ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER-Many intellectuals, artists, writers and lawyers made call for Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who are on hunger strike for 280 days, to be ...Read Article
ANKARA- The trial,opened on charges of “injury”, ended in acquittal for academicians and university students, who had been taken into custody for carrying ...Read Article
BATMAN-’Curfew’ declared by the Batman governorate in three villages and one rural in Batman. Curfew in Bitlis is still going on. Read Article
VAN-The peasants, who live in in Sarmaç village, which has the broad pasture area surrounded by the mountains , were obliged to leave sheep without food ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER- The people living in 12.000-year-old town Hasankeyf speak about the heritage of their region and what the planned destruction would mean for ...Read Article
MARDİN - The trustee appointed to Derik Municipality has cut down all trees in Ahmet Kaya Park of the district under the name of “renovation”. Read Article
NEWS CENTER - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has hit Iran. Read Article
NEWS CENTER - Four of 50 people detained in Eastern Kurdistan during Iranian soldiers’ attacks have been jailed. Jailed four women have been sent to prison. Read Article
ŞIRNAK - Hundreds of youth, women, children and old people were killed in Cizre, where was besieged by tanks, artillery after the declaration of the curfew on ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER- At least 100 people have been slightly injured in the two 5.4 and 4.9 magnitude earthquakes hit Eastern and Southern Kurdistan last night and they ...Read Article
MERSİN -75-year-old Sise Bingöl was jailed for her jail sentence convicted by the court and then she was exiled to Tarsus T-type Closed Prison without ...Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the people gathering in front of Human Rights Monument to make a statement on the 398th day of “We want our jobs back” action and ...Read Article
MARDİN - The curfew declared in six neighborhoods of Mardin’s Nusaybin and Dargeçit districts have been lifted. Read Article
ISTANBUL – The short film named “7 roj 7 şev” (7 days, 7 nights) about Taybet İnan, who was killed during the curfew declared in Silopi district, has ...Read Article
ŞIRNAK - A picture reflected on September 8, 2015 when the first curfew was declared in Cizre, revealed the state's proper to the Kurds. Emine Çağırga, ...Read Article
MARDİN/BİTLİS - The curfew declared in four neighborhoods of Nusaybin yesterday has been lifted but another curfew has been declared in other four ...Read Article
MARDİN - “As women, we are aware of what is going on but we will not bow down. We will resist and take to the streets to the end,” said Hülya Kılıç, ...Read Article
MALATYA - “We are living under hunger limit. Those who put us in this situation try to discipline us with hunger,” said the women opening stands at the ...Read Article
ANKARA - Children, who live in dilapidated houses of Kale Neighborhood, cannot access right to education because they are forced to work. Read Article
İSTANBUL- Human Rights Defenders pointed with the statement made within the scope of World Human Rights Day that the conditions of state of emergency cause ...Read Article
ŞIRNAK- Two years have passed since the curfew was declared in Cizre where the resisters said, “We will not surrender; we will not go out with white flags. ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR/ MARDİN – The curfew declared in 51 villages and hamlets of Diyarbakır’s five districts has been lifted while another curfew has been ...Read Article
VAN – “Women’s Labor Market” opened by DBP-held İpekyolu Municipality in Van province has been left to its fate after the appointment of the trustee ...Read Article
MALATYA - Alevi citizen, Zeynep Çelikkanat’s house was marked by unknown person or people. Zeynep stated that the investigation is continuing however she ...Read Article
BURSA- A woman named Nafiye Şahin was killed in Osmangazi district of Bursa province by a man named Kemal Y. Read Article
ESKİŞEHİR- Students of Osmangazi University in Eskişehir province organized an event within the scope of “Orange the world” campaign in order to say ...Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the people on the 396th day of “We want our jobs back” action maintained on Yüksel Avenue and detained six people. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - On the 461st week of their sit-in, Relatives of Disappeared asked what happened to Hacı Şili, who was forcibly disappeared in 1993. Read Article
