Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The Union of Public Sector Employees’ (UNISON’s) Falkirk Branch Chair Margaret Cook and UNISON Women’s Network Chair Pat Heron spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika about the work of women’s trade unionists in the United Kingdom and their project of women’s solidarity with Kurdish women activists against misogyny in Turkey. Heron also stated: “We should also make the British government impose sanctions on Turkey”.
Economist Çeleng Ömer from Afrin (Efrîn) University has shared images of an olive processing facility in Afrin, in northern Syria, where olive oil is produced. He reports that the revenue from this olive oil production facility – amounting to as much as 100 million USD – has been spent on militant groups.
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War crimes carried out by the Turkish state and its mercenaries, such as kidnapping, harassment, rape, slaughter of women and changes in the demographic structure are increasing by the day in occupied Afrin. The Afrin Human Rights Organization said in a statement that 28 people, including 11 women, were abducted in Afrin in the last 10 days.
A child who has been displaced to the Shahba Canton has lost his life after a mine left by ISIS was exploded.
Civilians who have been forcibly displaced in northeastern Syria as a consequence of the attacks by Turkish-backed mercenaries spoke to ANHA News Agency. They reported that the mercenaries had pillaged their villages and were refusing to let them re-enter them. Two villagers of Afrin , were kidnapped by Turkish-backed forces.
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Hamed Ghara Oghlani, a political prisoner from Orumiyeh, was sentenced to death and 13 years and 3 months in prison by branches 2 and 3 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of “Baqi” through membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, “insulting the leadership” and “relations with Israel and the United States”.
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The We Will Stop Femicide Platform (KCDP) announced that 29 women were killed in November and 10 women died in suspicious circumstances.
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The 26th anniversary of the bombing of the Özgür Ülke newspaper will be protested at an event to be held tomorrow. Journalist Ersin Yıldız, who was murdered in the attack, will be commemorated at his graveyard.