FRANKFURT | 20 – 11 – 2014 | In the bathroom at a McDonald’s in Offenbach, Germany on the evening of 15 November, two teenage girls were screaming for help. A 22 year-old German-born student of Turkish origin, Tugce Albayrak, heard their cries and alone rushed to their aid. She found several men harassing the two young girls and stopped them. ...
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Turkish State support for ISIS Documented Again
TURKEY | 27-10-2014 | Turkish support for ISIS gangs has been proved once more with photographic evidence. Armed gang members have been photographed at the border with Turkish soldiers, bidding each other farewell. Turkish support for ISIS gangs, which is constantly on the international agenda, has been documented once again by footage shot by the Dicle News Agency (DİHA), which ...
Read More »Worldwide solidarity with Saturday Mothers on the 500th week
TURKEY | 24-10-2014 | Sixteen years ago, on 28 May 1995, a group of mostly women from different age groups met in Galatasaray Square, in the central Taksim area of Istanbul and sat down in front of the Galatasaray School. They were holding pictures of mostly men, from different age groups. On the picture the name of the man and ...
Read More »Refugees from Kobanê in Need of Aid
SULAYMANIYAH | 22-10-2014 | People from Kobanê who have found shelter at a refugee camp in the Sulaymaniyah city of South Kurdistan following the attacks of ISIS gangs are in need of urgent aid and facing many difficulties. The refugees who first went to North Kurdistan, and then crossed to the South have found shelter in the Erbet camp in ...
Read More »YPG: Gangs attack civilians close to the border
KOBANE | 13-10-2014 | In a statement announcing the result of clashes that took place between Friday and Saturday morning, the YPG Press Centre stated that the advance of the ISIS gangs has been halted in clashes on the eastern, western and southern fronts. YPG reported that 70 gang members were killed and that the airstrikes of the last days ...
Read More »Turkish police attack protesting hostages from Kobanê
URFA | 13-10-2014 | 261 people from Kobanê, including children, pregnant women, elderly people and journalists, who came to Turkey through the Mürşitpınar border gate after clashes intensified on 6 October, have protested after continuing to be held as hostages in a sports hall despite being promised they would be released. The people from Kobanê, many of whom have been ...
Read More »Kurds in Europe Rise up for Kobanê
EUROPE | 07-10-2014 | Tens of thousands of Kurds have poured into the streets across Turkey, Europe and the world today in solidarity with the Kobanê resistance and in protest against the ongoing intensified attacks of ISIS gangs on the besieged Kurdish town. Demonstrators demanded urgent action worldwide in support of the Kurdish forces fighting inhuman gangs affiliated to the so-called ...
Read More »YPG launches offensives against ISIS gangs in Kobanê
KOBANE | 07-010-2014 | Fighters of the YPG/YPJ (People’s/Women’s Defence Units) who have put a heroic resistance in the face of ISIS attacks on Kobanê for weeks have launched offensives against the gangs attacking the town with heavy weaponry. According to the reports by an ANHA correspondent on the ground, the YPG offensives have been launched in the east and west sides ...
Read More »Turkey removes Al Nusra from ‘terror list’!
ISTANBUL | 18-06-2014 | The AKP government of Turkey has removed the Al Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusrah (Al Nusra Front), which it has openly encouraged and supported in its attacks on the gains of the Kurds in Rojava, from its list of banned ‘terror organisations’. In this way the AKP has abandoned its support for the Islamic State in Iraq and ...
Read More »Turkish Soldiers Opened Fire at Protest Against Military Outpost!
LİCE | 08-06-2014 | Turkish soldiers opened fire at protest against construction of military outpost in Lice, a district of Diyarbakir province. Local sources claim at least two were killed and several others wounded. Protests against the construction of a new military outpost in Lice turned violent today as Turkish soldiers opened fire on protestors. Two people were killed and several others ...
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