How convenient for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to throw the Dersim massacre apology on the table precisely on the days in which "law is being murdered" to quote BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş.
Rojin Mohammadi, a Kurdish medical student at Manila Medical School of Philippines was arrested upon her return to Iran and was transferred to Evin prison in Tehran.
The Festival on Wheels is gearing up to meet cinema fans once more with several new sections complementing the traditional core of the programme. This year’s Festival on Wheels line-up features award-winning films from World Cinema, the latest work to come out of Turkish cinema, a Dardenne Brothers retrospective, Zeki Demirkubuz’s ‘American Films I Envy,’ productions taking up the Arab Spring, and short films from Finland, including the work of Finnish cinema master, Aki Kaurismäki.
Turkey first country to adopt EU directive on domestic violence
In the week of demos and rallies to protest against the rising in gender related crimes, the General Assembly of the Turkish Parliament (TBMM) has adopted the "Draft Law on the Approval of the Ratification of the Council of Europe Declaration on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence". On 24 November, the Draft Law became law.
The Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission is holding its 67th meeting in Brussels today and tomorrow November. The meeting is expected to address the matters of long detentions, new constitution, conscientious objection, KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) operation and Dersim genocide.
Formally formed on 27 and 28 November 1978 the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party, Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan) core group was made up largely of political science students led by Abdullah Öcalan in Ankara. The group soon moved its focus to the large Kurdish population in south-east Turkey. On November 27, 1978, the group adopted the name "Kurdistan Workers Party".
Police attack in Berlin, 300 people taken into custody
German police attacked the demonstration which has been organized for today in capital city Berlin under the leadership of German Kurdish Unions Federation (YEK-KOM) and support of German left-democratic organizations. Many demonstrators were taken into custody as a result of the police attack with pepper spray.
Van independent MP Aysel Tuğluk commented the arrest of 33 lawyers as an injudicial process and said that; “We describe these arrests as a political operation. There has never been justice in this country since laws themselves are the source of the deadlock. Trials over the present laws don’t have any legitimacy”.
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How convenient for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to throw the Dersim massacre apology on the table precisely on the days in which "law is being murdered" to quote BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş.
Rojin Mohammadi, a Kurdish medical student at Manila Medical School of Philippines was arrested upon her return to Iran and was transferred to Evin prison in Tehran.
The Festival on Wheels is gearing up to meet cinema fans once more with several new sections complementing the traditional core of the programme. This year’s Festival on Wheels line-up features award-winning films from World Cinema, the latest work to come out of Turkish cinema, a Dardenne Brothers retrospective, Zeki Demirkubuz’s ‘American Films I Envy,’ productions taking up the Arab Spring, and short films from Finland, including the work of Finnish cinema master, Aki Kaurismäki.
In the week of demos and rallies to protest against the rising in gender related crimes, the General Assembly of the Turkish Parliament (TBMM) has adopted the "Draft Law on the Approval of the Ratification of the Council of Europe Declaration on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence". On 24 November, the Draft Law became law.
The Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission is holding its 67th meeting in Brussels today and tomorrow November. The meeting is expected to address the matters of long detentions, new constitution, conscientious objection, KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) operation and Dersim genocide. 
Formally formed on 27 and 28 November 1978 the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party, Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan) core group was made up largely of political science students led by Abdullah Öcalan in Ankara. The group soon moved its focus to the large Kurdish population in south-east Turkey. On November 27, 1978, the group adopted the name "Kurdistan Workers Party".
German police attacked the demonstration which has been organized for today in capital city Berlin under the leadership of German Kurdish Unions Federation (YEK-KOM) and support of German left-democratic organizations. Many demonstrators were taken into custody as a result of the police attack with pepper spray.
Van independent MP Aysel Tuğluk commented the arrest of 33 lawyers as an injudicial process and said that; “We describe these arrests as a political operation. There has never been justice in this country since laws themselves are the source of the deadlock. Trials over the present laws don’t have any legitimacy”.