KURDISTAN
Back to homepageLawyers met Abdullah Ocalan in Imrali
After 8 years of visit requests rejected, lawyers were finally granted permission to see Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan
Read MoreIran – More Darkness
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
Read MoreTurkey – Hunger Strikes. HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts
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”
Read More“Where is your voice?”A political prisoner’s letter to humanity
Murat Türk, born 1976 in Amed (Diyarbakır), is a former guerrilla fighter from Kurdistan. 24 years ago, he was imprisoned by the Turkish state
Read MoreWhat Next in Afrin?
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
Read MoreÖcalan’s lawyer: Isolation means war
Lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez is one of the lawyer of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, from Asrin Hukuk Burosu
Read MoreTurkey: hunger strikes for Öcalan reach a critical stage
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
Read MoreOpen Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt
Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have taken their own lives in the last three weeks
Read MoreTurkey: the wondrous tale of democratic resilience
All the country’s democratic and civic institutions — from an impartial judiciary to its newspapers and universities — have been battered by the ruling party
Read MoreUncertain Times in Rojava – The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
What is the future for the democratic revolution trying to unfold in North and East Syria?
Read More