ISTANBUL, TURKEY The Martyr Soro Amed Revenge Unit announced that a four-storey hotel in Beyoğlu was destroyed in an action made by the Unit. In the statement, the Revenge Unit shared, “members of the Martyr Soro Amed Revenge Unit carried out an action against a hotel located in the Hüseyinağa...
BEHDİNAN, SOUTHERN KURDISTAN We shared the first part of our interview with PKK Central Committee Member Kasım Engin on 12 January. In the second part of the interview, Engin discussed Private War and Virtual, or 'Social' as some may call it, Media. The second part of the evaluation is as...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY Deniz Aydın (24) and Taylan Gültekin (30) who were detained in the Sultangazi neighbourhood of İstanbul on 5 January were tortured for 4 hours. Aydın said, ‘They dragged us up 3 flights of stairs and took us to a special section of the police station. "I did my...
SAMSUN, TURKEY 17-year-old Yaşar Alperen Sava, who was shot by an assistant commissioner died in the hospital he was taken to. In an incident on 23 December, 17-year-old Yaşar Alperen Savaş, who attempted to escape a check-point for not having a drivers licence, was shot by the fascist police. The...
CENTRAL NEWS Just as Abdulhamit kept himself alive by playing balances between the French, British, Germans and Russians, Erdogan is now trying to do the same. He tries to implement his own agenda by making use of everyone without being bound to one side. He tried to do this with...
CENTRAL NEWS The solution process, or the lack of, played an important role in the shaping of politics within the Turkish state and Northern Kurdistan, the understanding of the PKK and the importance of Rojava. A brief timeline of the solution process is as follows: In late December 2012, the...
CENTRAL NEWS Turkey cannot stop the pipeline project to connect Greece and Italy to Cypriot and Israeli gas reserves since it is a signatory of an energy treaty that prevents such a move, wrote energy affairs editor Kostis Geropoulos for New Europe, on Thursday. Greece, Italy, Cyprus and Israel reached...
CENTRAL NEWS 15-year-old EAY who was working as an apprentice in a spare parts mechanic in Konya was tortured and hanged on a chain hoist for forgetting the type of a screw he was sent to buy. HHY (17) and his brother EAY started working as an apprentice at the...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY The Children of the Fire initiative continue to burn the Turkish state for the fires set in the hearts of Kurdish mothers. In a written statement made in Istanbul, the Initiative shared that a furniture factory and minibus was burned. The initiative reiterated the warning that actions will...
ANKARA, TURKEY The death of Sule Çet has been on the agenda of human rights activists in Turkey for a long time. Today, the falling Sule Çet case was concluded in Ankara. Today, the fascist Ankara 31st High Criminal Court has announced the verdict held for harassers Çağatay Aksu and...