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In Turkey, the campaign against militants seeking Kurdish self-rule has led to significant pressure – and often discrimination – against inhabitants of the country’s predominantly Kurdish regions, particularly the largest Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir. The ...
By umit Ozkirimli Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested. “Since [Osman K.] travelled to Hungary on 05.04.2013 with flight ...
By Aryeh NEIER Condemning other governments’ human-rights violations does not absolve Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the gross abuses his own government continues to commit. On the contrary, the current effort to put 16 ...
Cosatu and SACP protest outside the Turkish Consulate in Cape Town in support of Leyla Guven, who is on a hunger strike in protest against the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan. Picture: Nic Bothma/EPA-EFE ...
By Dicle Esiyok The arrest of tens of thousands of people during two years of emergency rule following a 2016 failed coup in Turkey has devastated countless families, leading to more divorces, increased violence against ...
PHOTO: Artı Gerçek Turkish police teams used force to enter the Diyarbakır offices of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in the early hours of Saturday and detained seven party officials on a hunger strike, ...
Germany revised its travel advisory to Turkey on Saturday, warning that statements protected by freedom of expression laws in Germany may not be so in Turkey. “It cannot be ruled out that Turkish authorities will ...
At least 4,280 people lost their lives due to the conflict between Turkish security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since a peace process broke down in July 2015, according to data released by the ...
PHOTO: Nomad Capitalist website. An Ankara court has denied an objection to a travel ban imposed on an academic who was fired from his university job over the alleged dissemination of terrorist propaganda, the Duvar ...
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The crater is the size of a football pitch, dug 50 metres (165ft) deep into the earth. Mounds of rock line the surface. The only life here is the seagulls drinking from pools of stagnant ...