Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party MP Cengiz Çiçek has proposed a parliamentary commission to investigate claims of strict isolation at İmralı Prison, countering the Justice Ministry's denial of isolation practices.   Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party MP for Istanbul Cengiz Çiçek on Wednesday called for a parliamentary investigation into alleged absolute isolation at Turkey’s İmralı Prison, challenging the Justice Ministry’s [...]

A Turkish nationalist group has claimed responsibility for the devastating fire at Erbil’s Qaysari Bazaar, which destroyed over 370 shops and injured more than 100, framing it as an act of historical reclamation. A significant blaze at Erbil’s Qaysari Bazaar on Sunday evening resulted in the destruction of over 370 shops and injuries to more than 100 individuals, with a Turkish nationalist [...]

Caroline Stockford and Sylvia Kuck of PEN Norway highlight the persecution of Kurdish journalists in Turkey, criticising systemic legal failures and authoritarian threats to press freedom. Recent analyses of 29 indictments against journalists in Turkey reveal systemic faults which amount to judicial harassment, leading to serious human rights abuses. “Legal examinations reveal systemic faults in cases against journalists,” Caroline Stockford, Turkey Advisor [...]

Kurdish-led North and East Syria (NES) faces worsening disaster driven by Turkish air strikes, pollution, and destruction of basic infrastructure, the UN-backed REACH initiative has found.   Turkish airstrikes against civilian infrastructure, oil leaks and lack of access to clean drinking water are worsening the humanitarian catastrophe in Kurdish-led North and East Syria, according to a report by the UN-supported humanitarian initiative [...]