Martyr Rüstem Cudi (Maxmur) Refugee Camp has been under embargo for 62 days since the attack on a restaurant in Hewlêr targeting Turkish consulate employees.
Peace Mothers of Maxmur in sit-in
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Co-mayors situations in Turkey
Filiz Buluttekin, co-mayor of Amed’s central Sur district municipality, was indicted on the grounds of a speech she made in Kurdish at the Local Conference of Women held on 7 January 2018.
Press freedom in Turkey in crisis, international press groups
A delegation of several international press freedom groups was in Turkey to evaluate the state of press freedom and the rule of law in Turkey, which they found “remains in crisis”.
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Almost a million more people unemployed in one year
The unemployment rate in Turkey stood at 13% in June, the Turkish Statistical Institute said on Monday. The figure was 2.8 percentage point up from the same month last year.
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Kolbar killed by Iranian forces in Eastern Kurdistan
Iranian regime forces carried out yet another attack on kolbars, load carriers for daily wage who earn a living at the border between Rojhilatê (Eastern) and Bashurê (Southern) Kurdistan.
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Kurdish political prisoner dies in prison
Mustafa Akyol, former co-chair of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) was jailed in Ağrı in 2011 and sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison for alleged “membership to an illegal organization”.
Turkish soldiers and mercenaries cut 300 olive trees in Afrin
The occupant Turkish state and its mercenary allies have carried out barbaric attacks on the civilian population of Afrin and unfortunately continue to do so. Furthermore they are destroying nature and the environment.
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Maxmur Refugee Camp under embargo for two months
On July 17, the South Kurdistan official of the Turkish secret service (MIT) was assassinated in a restaurant in the city of Hewler (Erbil). The security forces of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) then closed all ways in and out of the Maxmur Camp, which is now surrounded and under a strict embargo. While members of the democracy and freedom movement were arrested and tortured, the arrests were carried out by KDP security forces together with representatives of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
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