Kurdish media reports that Yezidis in Afrin afraid of a genocide by Turkish military

Members of the Yezidi (Ezidi) community in the Kurdish-run enclave of Afrin of northwest Syria told the news outlet Kurdistan24 on Saturday that they are concerned...

Doctor bearing witness to torture in Turkish mass detention center: I kept hearing awful...

A medical doctor who was assigned to conduct physical examinations in a gymnasium-turned-mass detention center following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 spoke...

HDP deputy proposes bill to save children jailed with mothers from Turkish prisons

Meral Danış Bektaş, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has proposed a bill that seeks to delay the execution of sentences...

White House denies Trump apologized to Erdoğan for Turkish bodyguard brawl with protesters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MUXHCEjflM While House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah has denied US President Donald Trump apologized to Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his...

EP’s Harms calls on EULEX to look into Turkish teacher case

Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament, on Sunday called on the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) to look...

Turkey’s Erdoğan says supporters of pro-Kurdish HDP to be ‘held accountable’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday said people who supported the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and voted them into parliament will be...

Opposition MP accuses justice ministry of lying about mistreatment, torture in Turkish prisons

Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has accused Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ of lying about mistreatment and...

668 babies to welcome Eid al-Adha in Turkish prisons

https://youtu.be/wzUPFmFDlbg Six hundred sixty-eight children under the age of 6 will welcome the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayramı) on Friday in jails across...

Report: 36 Kurdish villagers tortured under Turkish police custody

Thirty-six villagers who were detained following a clash between Turkish security forces and terrorists were allegedly tortured by police, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on...

Erdoğan’s security detail attack on DC protesters puts gun sale to Turkey at risk

The US sale to Turkey of $1.2 million in semiautomatic handguns for use by its security force appears to be in jeopardy due to...
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