Turkey

BEHDİNAN HPG-BİM made a written statement regarding the actions carried out on 13 and 16 May, as well as the actions organized by the guerrilla and information about the air strikes of the Turkish regime. According to the statement, at least three soldiers were killed in Sêrt, while police at...

İSTANBUL - Attorney İbrahim Bilmez from Asrın Law Office, stated that none of their applications made after 2nd May was responded to, neither posivitely nor negatively. He said: "our applications were not responded to so our demands have been rejected explicitly". Attorney Bilmez, stated that the Minister Gül's statement is not...

CENTRAL NEWS Thirty prisoners are on death fast demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Ocalan. The first group of 15 prisoners turned their indefinite hunger strike into death fast of 30 April, while the second joined in on 10 May. At the same time four days ago Merwan Memduh...

CENTRAL NEWS – The Maoist Communist Party (MKP) Central Committee / Political Bureau issued a written message today on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the revolutionary leader Ibrahim Kaypakkaya. In the message it was emphasized that ”Kaypakkaya is the legend of the Red Uprising”. With his intense fighting...

CENTRAL NEWS - The documents published by the Nordic Monitor website included secret statistical data kept by the intelligence department of the Turkish gendarmerie from 1 January 2014, to 30 June 2016, and made clear that the Turkish courts had convicted only 224 people, 37% of the total 607 detainees....

MERSİN - An investigation was launched for the 13 ÖHD member lawyers that carried out a sitdown in front of Mersin Courthouse. Prosecution office contacted Counter- terrorism Unit to investigate whether the lawyers are a member of an illegal organization. The sitdown was held by Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) members in...

İSTANBUL – In Istanbul, Beyoğlu, Kartal, Beykoz and Umraniye, the relatives of prisioners are gathering to demand that the isolation imposed on the Peoples Leader Abdullah Ocalan is removed and to bring attention to the ongoing hunger strikes and the death fasts. Many people gathered in Ümraniye wearing vests with the...

İSTANBUL- According to the information obtained, the police wrote 'ignorant' to the record of statement for 3 mothers who were taken under custody in İstanbul, doing a sit in to draw attention to the hunger strikes.41 people were taken under custody including journalists and lawyers during the sit in prisoner...

KOCAELI - The hunger strike resistance demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, continue in prison and outside. The resistance led by HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has spread to all prisons on 1 March. Women prisoners on hunger strike in Gebze wrote a letter to...

NEWS DESK - 15 more prisoners will participate in the death fast resistance that started on 30 April demanding the end of the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. PKK and PAJK prisoners issued a written statement confirming that 15 prisoners will go on death fast on 10 May....