CENTRAL NEWS On 18 August 2014, a 13-year-old living in Ankara was raped by Ahmet Ç who forcefully entered her home. The young girl had previously been harassed by the rapist. A lawsuit was filed against the man who denied complaints in his testimony in the 7th Assize Court of...
CENTRAL NEWS The lifeless body of university student Pinar Gultekin (27), who had been missing for five days in the U la district of Muğla , Turkey, was found in the forest area of Menteşe district. Gultekin's murderer Cemil Metin Avcı was detained. Cemil Metin Avcı, who was detained for murdering Gültekin confessed to the...
İSTANBUL, TURKEY Lawyer Ezgi Önalan was battered by Turkish police and detained after attempting to see her clients who were taken into custody during a police intervention against the commemoration of the Suruç Massacre. Ezgi said she will file a criminal complaint against the battery. Four lawyers were detained by...
CENTRAL NEWS During a period in which fascism has intensified its attacks against the people in Kurdistan and around the world, European Kurdish youth organizations, TCŞ and TEKO-JIN, announced that they started a new action. "Bi hev re serhildan!" Under their new slogan "Bi hev re serhildan!" (Revolt together), the...
CENTRAL NEWS YPS-JIN Martyr Devrim Botan Revenge Unit organized effective actions in İzmir, Mersin and Çorum within the scope of the “move against colonialism and agent-collaborators”. The details of the actions were detailed as follows: “Our unit members effectively hit the police station in İzmir Kadifekale at 21:00 on July...
CENTRAL NEWS Celebrations continue on the anniversary of the Rojava revolution by the Kurdish youth movements Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger and Jinên Ciwan ên Têkoşer (TEKO-JIN). While Antifa activists also participated in the actions held in the southern cities of France, Marseille and Marignane, the Rojava revolution was saluted with the...
DORTMUND, GERMANY TCŞ and TEKO-JIN activists celebrated the 8th anniversary of the Rojava revolution with an event in Dortmund, Germany. The celebration event, attended by about 70 young people, started with a minute's silence in commemoration of the martyrs of the Kurdistan revolution and the Rojava martyrs. Following the moment...
CENTRAL NEWS The PAJK (Kurdistan Women's Freedom Movement) Coordination made a written statement on the occasion of the anniversary of the Rojava Revolution. The PAJK statement is as follows: “While peoples in many parts of the world are newly going through a period of taking to the streets for freedom,...
ROJAVA Rojava, which means 'west' in Kurdish, is the smallest part of Kurdistan. The word 'Roj' means 'sun', and 'ava' means 'set'. Rojava, after Kurdistan was divided into four with the 1639 Kasr-ı Şirin and 1916 Sykes-Picot agreements, was the first piece to be glorified by a revolution that would...
BEHDİNAN, SOUTHERN KURDISTAN The Peoples' Protection Forces (HPG) Press Center shared that YJA Star forces organized actions against the occupying Turkish army on July 17 within the scope of the Cenga Heftanin Revolutionary Move. HPG said, “At 09.40, 12.30 and 17.05, our forces carried out assassination actions against the occupiers...