Statement 01.11.2013 – The female mayor of Nusaybin, Ayse Gokkan, has started a death fast among the mines between the border of Turkey and Syria. Gokhan said: “with the building if this wall of shame Turkey is not upholding the Ottowa Agreement which it is a signatory of. The wall is being constructed to maintain…
 INDEX •   Message from Ă–calan: Turkey needs to undertake responsibility for the process •   Peace and Democracy Conference: How to involve society in the peace process •   The Final Resolution Of The Ankara Conference For Democracy and Peace •   The Final Resolution Of The Diyarbakir Conference For Democracy and Peace •   The Final Resolution Of…
Statement 26.11.2012 – There have been important developments since November 8th in Serekani (Ras al-Ayn), the Kurdish area of Syria, which is also on the border of Turkey. Neighboring a town by the same name (Ceylanpinar) on the Turkey border, Serekani is a multicultural and multi-ethnic city with Arab, Assyrian and Circassian inhabitants. Both Serekani’s…
Index * KNK Press release urgent call * Last statement from the prisoners * Mayor Baydemir joins hunger strike * Time chronology and numbers of hunger strikers * Worldwide reactions and calls from international organizations; CPT, IHD and Amnesty international (urgent action) * International social scientists and academics petition campaign, Artists “Call From Istanbul”, Letter…
Statement October 2012- As it is known on 12th September 2012, led by nine Kurdish women prisoners in Diyarbakir E type prison an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike started. This strike has increased to almost all prisons in Turkey. Right now, there are 63 Kurdish prisoners who have been on hunger fast for 42 days.…
Statement 11.09.2012 – The political situation inside Turkey is rapidly deteriorating with an alarming increase in repression of opposition activists, including trade unionists, and the increasing militarisation of the State’s conflict with the Kurds. Turkish leaders feel that they have the green light from their NATO allies to use increasingly savage repression against their own…
Statement 01.08.2012 – The Turkish Army has been under military siege by the Kurdish Guerrilas for 9 days! The Turkish Army bombs Kurdish civilians and villages due to its defeat against the Guerilla! The HPG Guerillas who are part of the PKK, have been in control of a large vicinity of the Semdinli Town of…
Statements 29.12.2011- Turkish war planes bomb Kurdish village and massacre 40 children and youth in Sirnak, South East Turkey. Turkish war planes bombed Roboski village, a Kurdish village in the South East province of Sirnak, Turkey, killing at least 40 civilians, many of them children and youth, late last night. 24 of those killed belonged…