Many are still living in refugee camps in Sheba, close to Afrin, hoping to one day return to a liberated homeland.
Sixth anniversary of Turkey’s war against Afrin
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Ongoing: Turkey launches Christmas Day attack on North and East Syria
First reports already spoke of 13 wounded and 8 martyred
Police invade Kurdish Assembly
This invasion by the Metropolitan Police comes only two days after UK defence minister Grant Shapps and Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler held a meeting agreeing to “enhance” defence and security cooperation.
Stand in solidarity against Turkish war crimes in Syria
Take the war back to those responsible profiteers, companies and governments!
“If Erdogan loses there will be a big party. If he wins, people will go to prison”
Freedom interviewed with two election observers from the UK in Turkey for the presidential election:
Earthquake reveals growing cracks in Turkish political establishment
It’s sometime in the afternoon of February 7th, a day after the earthquake that shook Turkey and Syria. I am scrolling through my social media feed and all I see are very specific pleas for help: “So and so building on so and so street has collapsed and there is no one on-site for rescue.
Recent decision to stop all attacks of Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla
Repost from Kurdistan Democratic Communities Union (KCK) of parts of an interview with Duran Kalkan, member of the KCK Executive Council: “The centre of the earthquake and the areas hit by it are the areas where the PKK was founded. It is a geography that the PKK knows very well. In other words, 70 percent
Why is aid struggling to reach parts of Syria and Turkey after the most deadly earthquakes in almost a century?
On the 6th February, when two huge earthquakes struck South-West Turkey and North-West Syria, rescue workers failed to arrive in some badly hit areas for more than 24 hours. In Gaziantep, the epicentre of the first earthquake, no aid arrived for 12 hours after the disaster occurred, and Turkey’s military, (the second largest in NATO)
Evros Border Wall — with or without EU funding
140km. The Evros region, where Greece meets Turkey, and where the EU ends. The existing border structures have largely been created with EU funding, but this hasn’t yet extended to a physical barrier. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced that a 140km border wall will be built, whether the EU supports the construction of
15 people pushed back to Turkey
On the 15th of December, Alarm Phone received a call from 15 people stranded on Lipsi, a small island between Leros and Samos. They reported the situation to the Hellenic Coast Guard and Port Authority, but received no further news from the authorities. Remaining in contact with the group, they later discovered they had been
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