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Medya News offers stories, columns, and podcasts on struggles of the Kurdish people and MENA region.
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Residents in Turkey's Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır (Amed) threatened with death by Islamist group linked to Hüda-Par over communal pool use. Police called, no arrests made. medyanews.net/residents-th...
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Violence broke out in Turkey’s central city of Kayseri last night as tensions explode over alleged child abuse by a Syrian national. Shops were torched, vehicles overturned and numerous injuries reported. medyanews.net/pogrom-erupt...
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President Macron's coalition ranks third in snap elections, with a new left Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) alliance coming in second and Le Pen's far-right National Rally taking unprecedented lead medyanews.net/le-pens-far-...
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Turkish military assaults against northern Syria continue to result in civilian deaths and injuries. The latest attacks have killed a villager in Manbij and seriously injured a villager in Kobani. medyanews.net/one-civilian...
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The Turkey-Syria rapprochement is a 'major conspiracy' against the Syrians to legitimise the Turkish occupation, warns the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
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Turkish forces bomb Assyrian village in Dohuk, destroying church and homes. Locals call for urgent intervention to protect civilians and religious sites.
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The Turkish military is searching through the vineyards and orchards of villages in Iraqi Kurdistan, aiming with KDP support to fully occupy the border regions, it is reported.
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As of today, Abdullah Öcalan has been incommunicado in İmralı prison for 38 months. #CPT's Dr. Alan Mitchell has urged #Turkey to permit publication of #prison condition reports to enhance transparency and protect #humanrights.
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Outcry at crackdown on free press in Europe as Brussels-based Kurdish TV outlets raided
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The #Kurdistan National Congress has warned that #Turkey ’s recent military offensive in Iraqi Kurdistan threatens to escalate into a broader #MiddleEast conflict.
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Makbule Özer, an 81-year-old Kurdish woman, was rearrested in Turkey after a forensic report declared her fit for prison, despite ongoing serious health issues and previous releases on medical grounds.
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A statement by the Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) party highlights that the arrests of journalists in Turkey and Europe, and the raids in Istanbul, Ankara, Paris and Brussels are “unjust and “unlawful.”
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed a comprehensive 24-point agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shiya al-Sudani on Monday.
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At the Party Council meeting, Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party's Co-chair Tuncer Bakırhan articulated a future vision of expansion and stronger democratic governance following significant local election victories.
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Turkey’s DEM party declares the end of politics based on the exploitation of national symbols
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Discussions about Turkey's significant trade relations with Israel were notably absent from the talks between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniye.
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Bombardment intensifies in Iraqi Kurdistan ahead of Erdoğan’s visit to Baghdad, Erbil
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Turkey’s president Erdoğan aims to legitimise his occupation and planned attacks on Kurdish regions in northern Iraq via his upcoming diplomatic visits to Baghdad and Hewlêr in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, an umbrella Kurdish political organisation has said
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Kurdistan National Congress' Adem Uzun underscored the existential threats facing Kurds in the Middle East, advocating an urgent national unity conference to safeguard their future.
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A former Turkish soldier has revealed widespread gambling, severe mistreatment of troops and instances of war crimes within the military, according to a detailed testimony shared by the Kurdish Telegram channel OPERASYON on Wednesday.
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Fréderike Geerdink faced death threats from Turkish nationalists after criticising a photo by Selçuk Bayraktar, a drone manufacturer.
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Turkish security personnel commit systemic sexual abuse against women in Kurdish regions, Labour MP Sevda Karaca said at the Turkish Parliament, calling for the guards, police and soldiers to be held to account.
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🖊 After telling Selçuk Bayraktar on social media to ‘get the h* out of Kurdistan’, journalist Geerdink received an onslaught of comments online. She responds, shedding light on Bayraktar's role in Kurdistan and the implications of his actions.
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Dutch parliament conditions Turkey's customs union modernisation on the release of Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirtaş, following European human rights court decisions.
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Legal black hole’ as Council of Europe fails to act on Turkey’s human rights violations: press conf
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Ankara court refuses to release 18 Kurdish politicians, as Kobane trial drags on
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Turkish court delays its decision in the Kobane case.
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President Biden and Prime Minister Sudani of Iraq reaffirm a commitment to regional stability and economic growth during a White House meeting.
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French activists are outraged over the recent deportation of Serhat Gültekin to Turkey. Meanwhile, Gültekin has been taken to Istanbul’s Metris Prison, despite representations from his lawyers that he needs hospital care. Read More..
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A US congressional hearing on Tuesday delved into Turkey's dire human rights situation with crucial testimony from human rights defenders.
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Baghdad soon. Iraq’s national Al Sabaah newspaper indicates that this could mean closer relations between Iraq and the Turkish state.
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Urgent appeal on Öcalan case to European anti-torture committee.
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Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM Party faces renewed pressure as ultranationalist Erdoğan-ally calls for shutdown and removal of DEM Party MPs' parliamentary status.
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srael's War Cabinet has resolved to respond ‘clearly and effectively’ to an Iranian airstrike, according to Channel 12. The War Cabinet is scheduled to reconvene to finalise the specifics of the response.
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Lawyers Without Borders Deputy Chair Etienne Lesage condemns Turkey’s isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan as a ‘clear violation of the European Human Rights Convention.’
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108 Kurdish politicians are on trial for allegedly inciting unrest in 2014, which broke out against the Turkish government’s failure to respond to the ISIS siege of Kobane. The prosecution has hinged tweets sent to the HDP’s supporters calling for solidarity.
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President Biden and Prime Minister Sudani of Iraq reaffirm a commitment to regional stability and economic growth during a White House meeting.
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French activists are outraged over the recent deportation of Serhat Gültekin to Turkey. Meanwhile, Gültekin has been taken to Istanbul’s Metris Prison, despite representations from his lawyers that he needs hospital care.
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Kurdish politician Mehmet Çakas sentenced in Germany under anti-terror law
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Mehrdad Abdullahzadeh, a 20-year-old Kurdish man from Maraghan, was fatally shot by an Iranian border patrol near Sardasht on the Iran-Iraq border.
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Three SPD candidates in Filderstadt, Germany, with ties to the Turkish extremist group Grey Wolves are running in the upcoming local elections, a WELT investigation revealed.
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A Turkish aerial attack has killed a farmer in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, representing a “violation of international law.” Turkey carried out 358 strikes in the region between 1 March and 1 April.
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Anfal Campaign commemorated, new massacres continue
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A huge, five-storey ‘boot camp’ for ISIS trainees has been discovered in Istanbul, sheltering around 70 orphan children born to ISIS-linked parents, fire-arms, and militants already detained over terror attacks on Turkish soil.
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Through war and law Turkey aims to make no country safe for Kurds – a weekly news review
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Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) and the Barzani-linked Kurdish National Council of Syria (ENKS) have been accused of recruiting children for combat in northern Syria, for deployment in conflict regions such as Libya.
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Turkey seems the perfect destination to go on holiday, to be “capricious and carefree”, but for those living there as a minority, particularly Kurds, the reality is unfortunately very different, writes Tommy Sheppard in an article for Scottish daily The National.
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Journalist: Öcalan’s Kurdish project a ‘Utopian Vision for the Planet’
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Critical European Parliament conf to address isolation of Öcalan, Turkish prisons
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Eid al-Fitr brings messages of hope in wake of Kurd’s election victory.
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