Theresa May needs to prove her PMQs words on hunger strikers aren’t just lip service
During Prime Minister's Questions on 8 May, Theresa May was asked whether she will intervene over ongoing Kurdish hunger strikes ...
Tag: Turkey
UK activists begin five-day hunger strike
Three UK activists are on a five-day hunger strike. They are taking action in solidarity with thousands of Kurdish hunger ...
Activists across Wales, Scotland and England call for a boycott of holidays in Turkey
People from all over Wales, Scotland and England held pickets and direct actions targeting travel agents on Saturday 4 May. ...
New Turkish attacks in Syria are a stark warning of the threat to the Rojava revolution
The Turkish army and its allies have begun attacking the Kurdish majority region of Rojava (northeastern Syria). The Kurdish ANF ...
Activists call for boycott of tourism to Turkey because it ‘funds the state’s war on the Kurdish people’
Activists in cities across the UK are planning to picket travel agencies on 4 May. They want to persuade people ...
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It only took five days for the Turkish government to launch a criminal investigation into two new Kurdish mayors
On 31 March, Turkey went to the polls for its local elections. Current president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan suffered a major ...
An 87-year-old British lawyer has joined the hunger strike to end the solitary confinement of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan
UPDATE: This article was updated at 3.12pm on 3 April to include calls from within the Kurdish freedom movement for ...
25 human rights organisations say EU policy has had ‘disastrous consequences on refugees’ rights’
This week marks the third anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal, which has left thousands of refugees stranded on Greece's 'prison' ...
A year after Turkey murdered Anna Campbell, a powerful book makes sure her memory lives on
On 15 March 2018, a Turkish airstrike killed Anna Campbell. As I wrote at the time: A British woman has ...
Turkey takes a prisoner’s body and buries it in the middle of the night
The Turkish state has once again shown a disgusting disregard towards its Kurdish population. Hunger striker Zülküf Gezen died in ...
‘All that blood is on their hands’ – an eyewitness calls out the arms industry’s role in Turkey’s attack on Afrin
An internationalist volunteer has spoken to The Canary about joining the armed resistance against the Turkish invasion of Afrin in ...
Palestinian solidarity cannot include supporting Turkey’s fascistic president while ignoring the oppression of Kurdish people
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu continue their familiar feud, using social media and public ...
Three Kurdish people in London go on indefinite hunger strike, making the ‘ultimate sacrifice’
Three Kurdish people in London have joined thousands around the world on indefinite hunger strike. Ali, Said and Nahide have ...
Turkey calls itself a democracy. But it’s too dangerous for grieving mothers to meet on the streets.
The Saturday Mothers are a group of women who meet every week to remember and demand answers about their children, ...
Police shoot rubber bullets and tear gas into a peaceful march on International Women’s Day
On March 8, women around the world celebrated International Women's Day. But in Turkey, police opened fire on thousands of ...
Here’s why it’s impossible to take the US seriously on media freedom
Amid the ongoing coup attempt in Venezuela, right-wing politicians have been crying out about the country's deportation of certain US ...
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