The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) issued a communique regarding the statement made by Asrın Law Office’s lawyers regarding Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Ă–calan, who is kept under heavy isolation in Imralı Prison. The CPT and the Council of Europe are as responsible as Turkey is for the situation in Imrali. We have not heard from…
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Press Release
Stop Turkish military aggression against Kurdistan! EN-ES-FR-IT
On 20 November at midnight, Turkish warplanes began bombing hospitals, schools, and other civilian targets in and around KobanĂŞ, including the village of BelĂ»niyĂŞ in Shahba, southwest of KobanĂŞ, which is now populated by displaced Kurds from Afrin, as well as the village of Teqil Beqil near Qerecox in DĂŞrik in the eastern part of…
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Turkey’s Use of Chemical Weapons – A War Crime and Crime Against Humanity
The Turkish Armed Forces have been using chemical weapons against the guerrilla fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Recently, 17 guerilla fighters were brutally killed in chemical weapons attacks. Download in PDF Turkey, a signatory and party to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), is therefore in violation of its commitments to this treaty. For…
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Erdogan’s regime killed Jin Jiyan Azadi!
This morning, the academic and scientist of Jineology (Science of Women) Nagehan Akarsel was assassinated in South Kurdistan. Nagehan Akarsel was one of the women who implemented the Jin, Jiyan, AzadĂ® philosophy as the principle of the women’s revolution in the 21st century in Kurdistan. The Academy of Jineology in Sulaymaniyah, where Nagehan Akarsel was…
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STOP SERBIA’S EXTRADITION OF ECEVIT PIROĞLU TO TURKEY!
Call to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Doctors Without Borders, and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent for urgent action! STOP SERBIA’S EXTRADITION OF ECEVIT PIROĞLU TO TURKEY! Ecevit Piroğlu, a Kurd from Turkey, is a well-known political figure who has been fighting for…
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Immediate Call for a No-Fly Zone for North and East Syria/Rojava
Urgent appeal to UN, Global Coalition Against ISIS, EU, Council of Europe, and League of Arab States: Immediate Call for a No-Fly Zone for North and East Syria/Rojava Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long pledged to unilaterally establish a so-called “security zone” within North and East Syria/Rojava, and his actions have made it clear…
Dossier, Press Release
THE NEW DEBATE ON THE TURKISH COLONIALISM AND AGGRESSION IN SOUTH KURDISTAN
The Turkish state attacked the village of Perex on July 20. Nine Iraqi citizens were killed, and dozens were injured. Following this massacre, a new and very justified debate began in the international community. There has been a lot of discussion so far to put an end to Turkey’s invasion and attacks in Kurdistan in…
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IT IS TIME TO STOP THE TURKISH STATE’S MASSACRES AND OCCUPATION IN KURDISTAN
The Occupier Turkish state is relentlessly bombing Kurdistan daily and is using chemical weapons against Kurdish guerrillas. 138 civilians of which 28 are children have been killed in bombings in the last six years alone. Turkey is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by using weapons of mass destruction. 150 villages have been emptied…