Newroz, a festival marking the start of spring in many cultures, is being celebrated on Thursday in Diyarbakır, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority province.
The celebrations attracted...
The Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor’s Office has asked for a new report from Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) following a report by the London-based...
Turkish police on Monday detained 22 female members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who started a hunger strike in solidarity with jailed party...
Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has said he does not have any intention of running...
374 woman victims of fatal domestic violence in Turkey’s Southeast in 6 years: report
A report drafted by the Diyarbakır branch of the Human Rights...
Turkey has detained a Swedish citizen over suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, AFP reported.
The...
The Turkish government has declared 332 curfews in the predominantly Kurdish southeastern provinces of Turkey since August 2015, according to the most recent report...
Turkey’s Interior Ministry will pay TL1.3 million (around $200,000) in pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages to a woman who lost both of her legs in...
A Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) member and businessman Kamil Acar, who was abducted by masked gunmen in Diyarbakır on Thursday, returned home after two...
The Jin news agency announced on Thursday that police had raided their office in Diyarbakır without disclosing the reason for the operation.
“The police first...
Turkey’s human rights organizations have said almost 6,000 people were subjected to torture or mistreatment in the country in 2017, the T24 news website...
