Turkey

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen Ecevit Piroglu, a Kurdish-born socialist, has been illegally imprisoned in Belgrade, Serbia, since a year. Ecevit Piroglu is requested to be extradited to Turkey in violation of all international laws and practices. The Erdogan government has made several attempts at the Serbian government to extradite Ecevit Piroglu to Turkey. fI Ecevit Piroglu is extradited to Turkey, ...

Freedom for Ismail Yilmaz and all prisoners with medical conditions! Turkey has become an open prison as such no difference between prisons and outside. Another case has been added to prisoners with health conditions. Recently, the AKP-MHP alliance passed an amnesty in which nearly 100 thousand murderers and mafia members were released from prison. However, they played the 3 monkeys ...

Information Center: Yeni Demokrat Genclik (YDG) made a statement on the TIKKO guerrilla fighters who died in Dersim, retracing the events of recent months in Turkey and Kurdistan. All of these fighters for the people used to belong to YDG, and the youth movement honors those martyrs » Cengiz, Hakan and Özgüç … These comrades, with whom we have campaigned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...