Diyarbakır Bar Association's Center for Children Rights complained Governor of Istanbul to the Ombudsman on Wednesday for neglecting his duty with his attitude and statements about seventeen-year-old girl who was severely injured in Istanbul on May Day. In a statement on the complaint, the Center reminded that the Dilan Alp was severely injured on the head with the tear gas capsule thrown by police, and tha ...

The prosecutor's office of Lice has ruled lack of grounds for legal action in the case against some gendarmerie officers who denied access to the scene of the killing of 14-year-old Ceylan Önkol in an explosion on 28 September 2009. Ceylan was grassing sheep in the village of Şenlik, in Diyarbakır's Lice district, when she was killed, allegedly by a mortar shell. Following Önkol's murder which still remains ...

Four children lost their lives and about ten civilians were wounded when two shells fell on Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsood Gharby. Hawar News agency said that eleven passengers, including women and children were abducted in the area Talkalakh by ​​an armed group on the seventeenth of February. The abduction took place on the road between Afrin and Tarablus. Syrian helicopters bombed Gebesh village, located tw ...

The family of Şahin Öner, who died after being run over by an armored police vehicle in Diyarbakır yesterday, has been denied the preliminary autopsy report of their son. High-school student 19 years-old Öner was crushed by a police vehicle as police attacked demonstrators who took to the streets today in the neighborhood of Şehitlik in Amed's Yenişehir district in protest against the 15 February conspiracy ...

Faysal Sarıyıldız, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Şırnak deputy who is currently in prison in Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison, asked for a parliamentary inquiry on child brides and forced and early marriages. In the motion which Sarıyıldız presented through BDP Group deputy chair Pervin Buldan, the BDP deputy remarked that one out of three women is forced to marry at an early age. Sarıyıldız stated that ea ...

According to reports coming through three young Kurds were thrown off a cliff by Iranian soldiers, after being arrested on the border between Iranian Kurdistan Iraqi Kurdistan. These young smugglers who traded at the border were arrested on February 6. After seizing their goods, the soldiers killed 77 horses first and then tied the hands of three young men, before throwing them off a cliff near the village ...

One child was killed and two women were wounded as a cannon ball was dropped on a Kurdish neighborhood in the second biggest city of Syria, Aleppo on Monday. The city has been witnessing severe clashes between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the army of Bashar Al Assad for some time. Kurdish neighborhoods close to the city are also affected by the clashes. The identity of the child killed by the cannon ball ...