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Lawyers met Abdullah Ocalan in Imrali

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After 8 years of visit requests rejected, lawyers were finally granted permission to see Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan

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Iran – More Darkness

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Ramin Hossein Panahi was a Kurdish militant, sentenced to death in January 2018 by the Iranian regime. Ramin, and two other Kurdish prisoners, Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi were executed on Saturday, 8th September 2018

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Turkey – Hunger Strikes. HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts

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Peoples’ Democratic Party vice co-chair Hişyar Özsoy wrote a letter to the international community regarding the 15 political prisoners who have turned their hunger strike into a “death fast”

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 “Where is your voice?”A political prisoner’s letter to humanity

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Murat Türk, born 1976 in Amed (Diyarbakır), is a former guerrilla fighter from Kurdistan. 24 years ago, he was imprisoned by the Turkish state

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What Next in Afrin?

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Over a year has passed since the might of NATO’s second largest military machine with its fighter jets overran what had one of the safest regions in a Syria gutted by years of civil war and bloodshed

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Öcalan’s lawyer: Isolation means war

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Lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez is one of the lawyer of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, from Asrin Hukuk Burosu

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Turkey: hunger strikes for Öcalan reach a critical stage

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Hundreds of Kurdish detainees in Turkish prisons are carrying out a hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan

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Open Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

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Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have taken their own lives in the last three weeks

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Turkey: the wondrous tale of democratic resilience

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All the country’s democratic and civic institutions — from an impartial judiciary to its newspapers and universities — have been battered by the ruling party

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Uncertain Times in Rojava – The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

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What is the future for the democratic revolution trying to unfold in North and East Syria?

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