Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır Branch will be organizing a workshop on 18-19 May as part of the project it has launched for the victims of disappearances in custody, unsolved murders and mass graves in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The workshop will be attended by professional academics, intellectuals, journalists, writers and representatives of non-governmental organizations. The workshop which ...

Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) group deputy chair and Iğdır deputy Pervin Buldan asked for a Parliamentary Inquiry in order to investigate the unsolved murders that have taken the life of thousands of people since 1920 and, the political-social reasons and power groups behind the killings. Buldan remarked that the history of unsolved murders in Turkey went back to 1920 when Mustafa Suphi, leader of the Com ...

Adolf Hitler is quoted as saying, eight days before invading Poland in 1939, “Who today, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?” He was speaking of being inspired by the 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as he began his own systematic campaign of destruction. Today, the Armenian genocide remains fresh and relevant in the minds of Armenians around the world. On the ...

Frans van Anraat, a Dutch businessman who bought and sold chemicals, has been ordered by a court in The Hague to pay $520,000 US to 16 Kurdish plaintiffs injured in Iraqi gas attacks against them in 1988. The 70-year-old van Anraat sold the chemicals to Saddam Hussein that Hussein's Iraqi army used to make mustard gas. Some 5,000 Kurds were killed in the attacks. Though not a part of this case, von Anraat a ...

The Parliamentary Human Rights Special Commission which should have released its report on the massacre of Roboski on 28 February has postponed publication for another week. Roboski families reacted angrily to the decision stating that this is yet another evidence that justice is being denied for the 34 people (mostly youth) killed by Turkish warplanes on 28 Dcember 2011. The report by the Commission was or ...

On 28 December 2011 Turkish warplanes, acting on intelligence from drones, bombed a group of civilians on their way to South Kurdistan. Thirty four people died, mostly from the same family. The truth about the massacre has not been uncovered yet and the much awaited parliamentary report on the massacre has not been published yet, although its delivery was expected around 15 December 2012. Parliamentary Ulud ...

A mass has been found near the village of Karasu in Mardin's Mazıdağı district. According to the statements by villagers who opened the mass grave and found bones and clothes of three people, three members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were buried in the mentioned mass grave after they were executed by a group of JITEM (gendarmerie intelligence and anti-terror unit) members and Bilge village's guards ...

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 ...