NEWS

Latest News

• Boycott campaign targets Italian industries investing in Turkey 

  Riseup4 Rojava launched a campaign to step up the boycott of industries investing in Turkey in the city of Florence in Italy.
• "Racism is racism everywhere" 

  Ecevit Emre, a member of the Left Party politician and member of the Faith Council of the Federation of Alevi Associations in Wiesloch, Baden-Württemberg, was attacked last Sunday.
• Not such a merry Christmas for 150 million kids living in streets 

  About 150 million children will spend the Christmas holidays in the streets
• Banksy's nativity scene evoking the Palestinian-Israeli conflict 

  British street artist Banksy did not miss the opportunity to underlined the plight of Palestinians.
• Christians in Istanbul prayed for peace 

  Christmas celebrations took place in Istanbul in Saint Antoine Church where people called for peace.
• DBP Mardin co-chair taken into custody 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continue unabated.
• Turkey confiscates assets of Ragip Zarakolu in "KCK trial" 

  Turkey has confiscated part of the assets of the publisher Ragip Zarakolu. The 71-year-old, who lives in exile in Sweden, is accused of having supported the PKK by speaking at the DBP education academy.
• Lawyers apply to visit Öcalan in Imralı 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client.
• Family of YPG English martyr writes to PM Johnson: Stop Turkey! 

  The Scurfield family was accompanied by Dirk Campbell, the father of YPG fighter Anna Campbell (Hêlîn Qzemeox), who fell martyr in March 2018.
• "Trustees are meant to erase the will of Kurds" 

  Responding to the replacement of HDP's legally and democratically mayors with trustees, Kurds living in Istanbul said that their will was ignored and pointed out that every day there was a new municipality seized.
• Women join the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg 

  TJK-E women, who took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in front of the Council of Europe, said that they will not accept Öcalan captivity, and called on European institutions to "stop playing three monkeys."
• United Labor Congress calls for general strike 

  Days before the announcement of the minimum wage, the United Workers' Assembly organized an action in Kadikoy and called for a general strike.
• HPG guerrillas commemorated in Bielefeld 

  A memorial event was held in Bielefeld for two HPG guerrillas who fell as martyrs.
• Revenge Unit targets police in central Van 

  Martyr Baran Dersim Revenge Unit targeted plainclothes police vehicles in Van province.
• Mustafa Nazif Aktaş commemorated in Paris 

  PKK member Mustafa Nazif Aktaş was murdered by Turkish racist chauvinist groups in Paris on 23 December 1985.
• Co-mayor of Kızıltepe transferred to Tarsus 

  Democratically elected political representatives of the Kurdish people are systematically imprisoned and transferred to jails far away from their hometowns and constituencies.
• Turkish diplomat’s car set on fire in Greece 

  The incident came at a time of escalated tensions between Athens and Ankara over drilling operations in the Mediterranean.
• Co-mayors of Sur remanded in custody 

  Sur co-mayors Filiz Buluttekin and Cemal Özdemir, who were brutally detained by the police on December 20, have been remanded in custody.
• Israeli attack on Syria: three pro-Iranian fighters killed 

  The Syrian Human Rights Observatory reported that at least three pro-Iranian fighters have been killed in an attack by Israel in Syria.
• Nusaybin mayor Kaya transferred to Tarsus T-Type Closed Prison 

  Former Mayor of Nusaybin Sara Kaya was transferred to Tarsus T-Type High Security Closed Prison.
• HPG guerrilla Abdullah Osmanoğlu commemorated in Stockholm 

  HPG guerrilla Abdullah Osmanoğlu was commemorated in Stockholm on the first anniversary of his martyrdom.
• Venezuela Defense Minister denounces attack at a military base 

  Venezuelan Defense minister confirmed that police and military agents were deployed in the area and managed to capture some of the attackers.
• Dangerous game in Iraq 

  While the protests in Iraq against the corrupt ruling system continue, the Bina coalition of pro-Iran Shiite forces and some Sunni groups has taken steps that could lead to a further deepening of the crisis.
• Libya: Haftar warns Turkey against supporting Tripoli 

  Turkey strongly supports the Tripoli-based government and is ready to dispatch troops to help defend the capital at the request of the Government of National Accord (GNA).
• Kurdish children in Essen protest against war 

  The group denounced massacres caused by wars, and the destruction of children and nature in Kurdistan territory.