Police attack on women protesting religious affairs
- 15:58 06/1/2018
ANKARA - Police attacked women protesting the comments of the Directorate of Religious Affairs on its official website saying girls as young as nine could ...Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked women protesting the comments of the Directorate of Religious Affairs on its official website saying girls as young as nine could ...Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the “We want our jobs back” action ongoing for 424 days on Istanbul’s Yüksel Avenue and detained four people. Read Article
VAN - “We will not accept the fate appraised for women. As women, we will stretch our struggle against ongoing fascism like Sakine Cansız, who didn’t bow ...Read Article
VAN - “Special pink bus for women” campaign launched by a group of men organized under the name of “Civil Solidarity Initiative” in Van province has ...Read Article
ISTANBUL - A man named Duran E., who sexually assaulted four women in Istanbul, has been jailed. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - HDP Diyarbakır Co-chair Filiz Buluttekin commented on increasing femicide and she said that the only solution is joint women’s struggle. Read Article
SULAYMANIYAH - Kurdistan Free Women's Organization (RJAK) has determined its executive committee members during its 4th ordinary congress. Read Article
ARDAHAN - Hydroelectric power plants (HES) and dams built in Posof, Hanak and Çıldır districts of Ardahan province keep posing a threat to the environment. ...Read Article
MERSİN - Journalist Şirin Çoban, who was taken into custody a week ago, has been released under judicial control. Read Article
KOCAELİ - Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Vice Co-Chair Aysel Tuğluk, who is behind bars in Kandıra F-type Prison, has been sentenced to one year and six ...Read Article
ISTANBUL - Lawyers of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan have applied to the Public Prosecutor of Bursa for 718th time to meet their client. Read Article
ISTANBUL - A child was subjected to sexual assault by Hicabi D. in Istanbul’s Bahçelievler. Read Article
ŞIRNAK - Cutting of trees in Besta region is going on under the name of “security”. The cut trees are used as fuel woods in the military bases and in the ...Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - “We will not leave our homes, we will not leave Sur,” said the women resisting the ongoing demolition in Alipaşa and Lalebey neighborhoods ...Read Article
ŞIRNAK - Behiye Nayır, mother of Pakize Nayır one of three Kurdish women killed during “curfew” declared in Silopi two years ago, talked about her ...Read Article
SHENGAL - Şeda Salım Bışar is a young Êzidî woman, who was taken captive after 73rd edict against Êzidîs but never gave up her passion for freedom. She ...Read Article
ŞIRNAK – “Go out and take a step to make yourselves happy instead of wasting your invisible labor at your home,” said Hediye Gençer, who sells honey in ...Read Article
MAXMUR- Colors of autumn are everywhere in Maxmur (Martyr Rüstem Cudi) Camp while the weather is getting colder day by day. In Maxmur, where yellow and red ...Read Article
ADANA -A child has been jailed for allegedly throwing a sound bomb to a police station in Adana province. Read Article
ANKARA – Six people saying, “They are trying to discipline us with hunger,” have been taken into custody by police on the 418th day of “We want our ...Read Article
DERSİM – “Special Security Zone” has been declared in 30 regions of Dersim city center and the city’s Ovacık, Pülümür, Hozat and Nazimiye ...Read Article
DERSİM - Khal Gağan celebrated by DBP-held municipality every year on New Year according to Hijri Calendar accepted by Kurdish Alevis wasn’t celebrated ...Read Article
ADANA – Clowns usually preferred by private companies and organizations in order to attract attention and make more sales on special days like New Year, ...Read Article
DERSİM – The hunger strike launched by women prisoners in Elazığ T-type Prison against “ID imposition” and ongoing pressures on them has entered in ...Read Article
ISTANBUL – Saturday Mothers set up a wish tree at Galatasaray Square by putting the photographs of their loved ones on the tree and lighted candles. Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the action of the Confederation of Public Employees' Trade Unions (KESK) to be taken place in Ankara and detained three people, ...Read Article
NEWS CENTER - Another mass grave belonging to 80 Êzidî women, who were killed during the 73rd edict against Êzidîs, has been found in Shengal. Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the “We want our jobs back” action going on for 417 days and detained six protesters. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Police raided the building of the HDP following 5th Ordinary Congress of DBP Provincial Organization. Read Article
ADANA - Five people, including three children, have been taken into custody after house raids in Adana province. Read Article
VAN - Relatives of prisoners react to “One-type uniform” imposition and say, “The prisoners have announced that they will not accept this dishonorable ...Read Article
MARDİN - An investigation has been opened against the students of Kemal Gözü Girls Vocational and Anatolian High School located in Mardin’s Nusaybin ...Read Article
BATMAN - The banks built on Tigris River for the trucks have collapsed. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR - Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Dicle Co-chair Semra Akgul has been detained at police station, where she went to bear testimony. Read Article
ADANA-(Labour Party) EMEP Adana Provincial Lawyer Sevil Aracı, reacted to “one type uniform” practice put into effect by the emergency decree No. 696 by ...Read Article
ANKARA - Three people have been detained on the 416th day of “We want our jobs back” action held on Yüksel Avenue, Ankara. Read Article
AĞRI - Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Ağrı Provincial Co-Chairperson Naile Barış’s four years and two months sentence in prison was charged and she was ...Read Article
MUŞ-Muş Prosecutor, objected to the release of Mesopotamia Agency reporter, journalist Seda Taşkın. Read Article
ANKARA - The court took “The legal compliance” decision for the identity cards that prevent the prisoners from using all their rights in Elazığ T Type ...Read Article
DERSİM-Xeyzan, who grew up with the traces of the massacre in 1938 and witnessed the burning village policies of the state in 1980-1990, didn’t leave her ...Read Article
ADANA - Zekiye Polat, who lives in Adana, walks around almost everywhere in the city with a huge paper collection car despite her age. Zekiye, who has many ...Read Article
İZMİR - Woman prisoner Didem Akman allegedly set her ward on fire to protest “one type uniform” practice put into effect by the emergency decree No. 696. ...Read Article
ŞIRNAK - Fatime Akın was detained while visiting her sister Halime Akın in Şırnak T-type Closed Prison and then she has been sent to the same prison by ...Read Article
İZMİR- The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) member and prisoner Didem Akman allegedly set her ward on fire to protest “one type ...Read Article
ISTANBUL – Villagers start a vigil action when a private company starts to cut olive trees to build a thermal power plant in Bartın province. Read Article
ISTANBUL – The trial of academics for peace Esra Mungan, Meral Camcı, Muzaffer Kaya and Kıvanç Ersoy has been postponed to April 18. Read Article
ANKARA - Garbage collectors of Çankaya Municipality have opened a library in an old factory located in İmrahor Neighborhoodof Ankara’s Mamak district by ...Read Article
MARDİN - In Nusaybin, where the construction of TOKİ buildings is going on, the people have been asked for “excavation money” under “Expropriation ...Read Article
ANKARA - Police attacked the “We want our jobs back” action on Yüksel Avenue ongoing for 412 days and detained three people. Read Article
DİYARBAKIR – Rojbin Baran was killed by her husband Şehmus İlhan in Dicle Neighborhood of Fiskaya quarter. Şehmus, who walked freely in the neighborhood ...Read Article