Middle East (old)

İSTANBUL- According to the information obtained, the police wrote 'ignorant' to the record of statement for 3 mothers who were taken under custody in İstanbul, doing a sit in to draw attention to the hunger strikes.41 people were taken under custody including journalists and lawyers during the sit in prisoner...

TEL AVIV T he European song contest kicked off in the Israeli capital Tel Aviv on Tuesday amid the reported deployment of the country’s Iron Dome anti-rocket systems. This comes a little more than a week after a violent flare-up in the region. Tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians escalated...

KOCAELI - The hunger strike resistance demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, continue in prison and outside. The resistance led by HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has spread to all prisons on 1 March. Women prisoners on hunger strike in Gebze wrote a letter to...

NEWS DESK - 15 more prisoners will participate in the death fast resistance that started on 30 April demanding the end of the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. PKK and PAJK prisoners issued a written statement confirming that 15 prisoners will go on death fast on 10 May....

ANKARA - The Monitoring Committee, which was established to monitor isolation and hunger strikes, submitted a report to the Ministry of Justice. The report noted that the situation has gone beyond the critical threshold and that isolation should be lifted immediately. The Human Rights Association (IHD), the Human Rights Foundation...

ISTANBUL - Zozan Çiçek is one of the 15 prisoners on death fast since 30 April demanding the end of isolation against People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan. Çiçek said they owe this resistance to the martyrs of freedom. On 6 May lawyers from Asrin Legal Office held a press conference to...