Turkey

BEHDİNAN, SOUTHERN KURDISTAN KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Cemil Bayık answered the questions of journalist Ciwan Tunç about the developments in the Middle East and the hostility against the Kurds by the Turkish state on Stêrk TV. Cemil Bayik started his speech by saluting "the resistance of Honour in Rojava Kurdistan,...

CENTRAL NEWS The United Revolution Movement of the Peoples made a written statement, claiming responsibility for the dual-explosions which were carried out in the 20th Turkish Brigade Commandership building in Riha. “The arsenal warehouse of the 20th Armored Brigade Commandership located in Urfa was destroyed by our Aynur Ada -...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY 35 members of the HDP Youth Assembly were detained and held at the Istanbul Vatan Police Headquarters for 8 days before being transferred to the Çağlayan Courthouse. Of the 35 young people who were subjected to torture during the detention,15 were released on condition of judicial sureveillence while...

ANKARA, TURKEY Turkey Statistical Institute (TSI), announced the unemployment figures for August. According to Turkstat, in August 2019, the number of unemployed persons rose by 980 thousand compared to the same period of the previous year becaming 4 million 650 thousand. The unemployment rate increased by 2.9 percentage points to...

ANTALYA, TURKEY HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) Antalya Youth Assembly held a press conference on pressure and detentions against its members. The youth held a banner reading, "We started young, we will succeed young." Speaking, Youth Assembly Member Bilal Kilic, stressed that during the home raides in Istanbul and Amed, "45...

CENTRAL NEWS According to information obtained by the Kurdistan Strategic Research Centre, the Turkish government had emitted it's jihadist proxy gangs, formed of ISIS, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda and FSA, to Somalia and Qatar during the occupation offensive it launched in North and East Syria, for protection. The centre has disclosed that...

CENTRAL NEWS Turkey Ministry of Interior has dismissed four more HDP mayors in Kurdish-majority cities and appointed AKP district governors as trustees. Mayors of Yenişehir and Hazro districts in Amed, İdil district in Sirnex and Akpazar town in Dersim have been replaced with AKP trustees by the Ministry of Interior....

CENTRAL NEWS An American member of ISIS has been stuck in no man's land between the Turkish and Greek border for a second day after Turkey released the jihadist to Greece, the Middle East Eye revealed in an article. According to the web page, a Turkish government official speaking on...

AMASYA, TURKEY A woman named A.T. threw a molotov at the store of her abusive husband with her two friends in Amasya's Merzifon district. After examination of the incident through security camera records, it had been revealed that the three women approached the front of the store in a vehicle,...

CENTRAL NEWS Yashar Kassar, a close friend of former British intelligence (MI6) officer James Gustaf Edward Le Mesurier who died in Istanbul, argued that Le Mesurier was on the black list of Russia and Syria, arguing that his death was murder, not suicide. Former British intelligence (MI6) officer and founder...