Turkey lifts visit ban on jailed PKK leader – says minister
Turkey’s Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said the government has lifted a ban on lawyers visiting Abdullah Ocalan,…
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Women and pro-Kurdish MP hospitalized after Turkish police break up…
An MP for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as well as some family members of the Kurdish inmates on…
Turkish band members to stage hunger strike in protest to crackdown of…
Members of a popular Turkish band have announced that they will stage a hunger strike
from Friday 17 May in a bid…
Jailed PKK leader calls for negotiation and reconciliation
The imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, says democratic negotiation…
Death fast to protest Ocalan’s isolation
Fifteen Kurdish prisoners who are protesting the enforced isolation of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the…
Turkish police lift blockade targeting pro-Kurdish MP on hunger strike
Turkish police lifted a blockade around the house of Leyla Guven, the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP)…
Latest polls “a humiliating defeat” for Erdogan
Turkey’s recent local government elections that resulted in the governing party losing control of several major…
Another prisoner commits suicide in support of Ocalan
Sirac Yuksek, who began participating in a hunger strike on 1 March 2019, committed suicide at the Osmaniye Type T…
Kurdish parliamentarian calls for an end to suicides aimed at lifting…
Leyla Guven, an MP of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), has called for an end to suicides, which…
Prisoner Commits Suicide Amid Increasing Hunger Strikes to Protest PKK…
Zulkuf Gezen, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2010 for an alleged PKK bomb attack in 2007, hanged himself in…