Montserrat Vinyets Pages, a Catalan MP, highlighted the 25-year isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in the Catalan Parliament, calling for action from the Council of Europe's anti-torture Committee. 🔴 Montserrat Vinyets Pages, a Catalan MP, highlighted the 25-year isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in the Catalan Parliament, calling for action from the Council of Europe's anti-torture Committee.#FreeOcalan4PoliticalSolution | [...]

A journalist in Turkey, Neşe İdil, received a suspended sentence for spreading terrorist propaganda with a tweet showing women celebrating the liberation of Kobani (Kobanê) from ISIS in 2015. A Turkish court has handed a suspended prison sentence to journalist Nece İdil for tweeting in 2015 that the women of the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), an all-female brigade of the armed forces [...]

Human Rights Watch's new report sheds light on Turkey's aggressive strategy to target dissidents of Turkish nationality abroad, detailing abductions and disappearances in several countries. Turkish intelligence services have been bypassing judicial rulings and legal procedures to abduct, bring back to Turkey, and detain dissidents of Turkish nationality from several countries, according to a new report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW).The [...]

Turkish fighter jets bombed the Medya Defence Zones 37 times in six days as its occupation campaign in guerrilla areas continues unabated. The Press Centre of the People's Defence Forces (HPG) published a statement providing information about the Turkish army's attacks on the guerrilla-held Medya Defence Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). According to the statement, the guerrillas in Sîda [...]

Stating that the Turkish state, targets civilians indiscriminately to prepare the region for occupation by depopulating it, KNK called on all Kurdish forces and Iraqi authorities to take a strong stance against these attacks. The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Executive Council condemned the killing of two civilians by warplanes in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). "The occupying Turkish state, encouraged by [...]