Armed attacks and provocations in Diyarbakır
08:39 10/06/2015Since the killing of Aytaç Baran, the head of an Islamic association in Diyarbakır, three people have been killed and three wounded in the city. The wounded included journalist Canan Altıntaş. ...
Police brutalize teen girl in racist attack on children's pool party
13:01 09/06/2015After neighborhood racists called the police on a group of children having a pool party in McKinney, Texas, police violently attacked a 14-year-old girl and other Black children.
Ada Colau calls for feminization of politics
11:37 09/06/2015Ada Colau, Barcelona's first woman mayor, has made it her first order of business to cut high salaries and cancel expensive cars in the city government. Ada has said that increasing women's ...
New women's solidarity project comes to Antalya
11:27 09/06/2015ANTALYA – Nar (Pomegranate) women's solidarity workshops are working to help women organize themselves across Turkey. After work in the cities of Ankara and Eskişehir, Nar has come to the southern ...
'We'll paint the Parliament purple' say woman MPs
11:07 09/06/2015Several leading lights of Turkey's women's movement, elected in the June 7 election, are now preparing to take to the Parliament. New MP Çağlar Demirel, commenting on the election to JINHA, has ...
'No bomb can stop Amed,' say celebrants of HDP victory
10:49 09/06/2015In the city of Diyarbakır, shaken just three days before by the bloody bombing of a HDP rally, the HDP elections victory had a special significance. Hundreds of thousands gathered for a mass ...
Syrian refugee woman raped in Adana
10:07 09/06/2015After a Syrian refugee woman was raped by her employer in the Adana province of Turkey, the woman reported the attack to the police. However, her attacker has fled.
Diyarbakır bombing victim Civan Arslan dies
10:05 09/06/2015The twin cluster bombing of the HDP's Diyarbakır rally has claimed another life. 17-year-old Civan Arslan, struggling for life in intensive care at Dicle University's Hospital since Friday, lost his ...
Strides for women in Turkey's Parliament
10:02 09/06/2015With 97 women preparing to enter Turkey's new Parliament, the June 7th elections have raised the percentage of women in Parliament from 14.3% to 17.6%.
HDP victory celebrated across Kurdistan
09:56 09/06/2015Citizens celebrated the HDP victory in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan by taking to the streets in Rojava and Southern Kurdistan. The first message of congratulations for Turkey's first Êzidî ...
HDP co-leaders: victory belongs to the women of this country
11:13 08/06/2015The general co-chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), in their victory speech last night in Istanbul, said the HDP victory belongs to all those who want to live freely in Turkey and the ...
Kobanê out in the streets for HDP
10:33 08/06/2015Just a few months ago massive crowds were pouring into the streets in Northern Kurdistan (Turkey) to celebrate the victory of the Kobanê resistance. Now, the people of Kobanê have taken to the ...
HDP voters in the streets all night
10:27 08/06/2015In Kurdistan, where the HDP came in first in 14 provinces, celebrations of the HDP victory continued until the morning light. Istanbul also saw large celebrations in Kadıköy.
New Turkish Parliament to be 20% women
10:14 08/06/2015Voters in Turkey sent 97 woman MPs to the Parliament in yesterday's election, making for the largest rate of women ever in Turkey's Parliament: 20%.
HDP sending 31 women representatives to Parliament
22:52 07/06/2015Although election results are not final, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) looks to be sending 31 women candidates to Parliament. The party ran a 48% women list, according to its principle of ...
Figen Yüksekdağ calls on HDP members to maintain vigil
21:35 07/06/2015Figen Yüksekdağ, general co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has called on those observing the elections tonight not to leave their posts.
Police attack JINHA reporter in Istanbul
21:34 07/06/2015As JINHA reporter Melis Ilgaz was following the tensions at an Istanbul polling station, police attacked her and broke her camera.
HDP likely passes Turkey's electoral threshold
21:10 07/06/2015It's almost official: the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has passed Turkey's electoral threshold.
Diyarbakır celebrates HDP victory
20:51 07/06/2015With reports indicating with almost total certainty that the HDP has passed Turkey's electoral threshold, the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in Diyarbakır have ...
Masses on duty against stolen votes as vote count continues
19:57 07/06/2015With instances of attempted election fraud ongoing all day across Turkey, the people have taken up a vigil in front of schools and the Supreme Electoral Council in Diyarbakır, Istanbul and Siirt.