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Deputies and journalists are directly targeted as Amnesty warns ” Turkish army operations ‘beginning to resemble collective punishment’…

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Amnesty: Turkish army operations ‘beginning to resemble collective punishment’ The Turkish military operations backed by curfews in the country’s southeast have begun to resemble “collective punishment,” Amnesty International said on Jan. 20 Top EU official calls for ceasefire, return to Kurdish peace process EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn has called for an … Read more

Now ordinary in Turkey’s Kurdish towns: “Woman killed after rocket projectile hits house in Turkey’s southeast…

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Woman killed after rocket projectile hits house in Turkey’s southeast One woman was killed and another was wounded after a rocket projectile hit a house and exploded during the clashes on Jan. 3 in the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, where a military curfew is ongoing  

It is war out there in Turkey’s Kurdistan. 7 more killed today… while teachers are officially ordered to leave Cizre and Şırnak…

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Seven people killed in Turkey amid protests against curfews World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Reuters in Diyarbakır Two people die as demonstrators clash with police in Diyarbakır while five Kurdish militants are killed in Mardin Teachers Leave Cizre, Silopi Bianet :: English Teachers in Şırnak’s Cizre and Silopi districts have received an SMS informing them that … Read more

Kurdish news agency #DİHA in Diyarbakır raided by Turkish security forces, 10s detained; Turkey recruits more militias against Kurdish guerillas…

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A video from the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qi4B5Wk3ok A list of detained DIHA employees: DIHA agency website currently blocked in Turkey: http://www.diclehaber.com/en   Ongoing censorship blocks Kurdish, critical, data-based media … Today’s Zaman–Aug 16, 2015 The majority of sites that have been blocked are Kurdish media outlets, including ANF, ANHA, the Dicle News Agency (DİHA), Rojnews and … Almost … Read more

Erdoğan of course knows better, challenges US, claims PYD is terrorist… In the mean time, AKP’s election jingle banned due its religious exploitation…

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US is wrong, PYD is terrorist, says Turkish President Erdoğan Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reacted to a recent statement by a U.S. official who said Washington does not consider the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), a terrorist organization. Turkey’s Supreme Election Board bans AKP poll jingle … Read more

CORRECTION inside: 15-year-old #Bünyaminİrci, very likely, a victim of extrajudicial killing by Turkish special forces…

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After a few hours, it appears that the kid in the video is not the kid that is found dead…. The video was also shared by DIHA, the pro-Kurdish agency, they are also duped or they might be source of this disinformation… 15-year old İrci is found shot at heart, his ears cut in Cizre, Şırnak A … Read more

EFD Rights Watch: Rape scandal in Bingöl continues… Annual transsexual pride demonstration marches for rights, Gezi Park…

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Court rejects arrest demand for officers in southeastern Turkey rape case The demand for the arrest of four sergeants accused of raping a minor in Bingöl was rejected   Court orders demolition of park considered sacred in Tunceli, stirring outcry A park in an area considered sacred by the local Alevis in the eastern province … Read more