Tag: Turkey

Thousands of Kurdish activists have finally ended their hunger strike. Politicians, political prisoners and activists around the world had been ...

The Canary recently spoke to a 48-year-old woman in London who's on hunger strike. And she explained exactly why she ...

On 18 May, demonstrations were held in several cities around Wales and England calling on holidaymakers to boycott tourism in ...

On 15 May, Palestine marked the 71-year anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), which saw around 700,000 people expelled from their ...

A recent Intercept report claims that NATO member Turkey now "rivals the U.S. and the U.K. as the world’s most ...

Today is 15 May. And a Kurdish journalist in Turkey was facing seven years and six months in prison for doing her ...

15 Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have declared that they've started a 'death fast'. This is more immediately life-threatening than ...

During Prime Minister's Questions on 8 May, Theresa May was asked whether she will intervene over ongoing Kurdish hunger strikes ...

Three UK activists are on a five-day hunger strike. They are taking action in solidarity with thousands of Kurdish hunger ...

People from all over Wales, Scotland and England held pickets and direct actions targeting travel agents on Saturday 4 May. ...

The Turkish army and its allies have begun attacking the Kurdish majority region of Rojava (northeastern Syria). The Kurdish ANF ...

Activists in cities across the UK are planning to picket travel agencies on 4 May. They want to persuade people ...

On 31 March, Turkey went to the polls for its local elections. Current president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan suffered a major ...

UPDATE: This article was updated at 3.12pm on 3 April to include calls from within the Kurdish freedom movement for ...

This week marks the third anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal, which has left thousands of refugees stranded on Greece's 'prison' ...

On 15 March 2018, a Turkish airstrike killed Anna Campbell. As I wrote at the time: A British woman has ...