„Ich weiß eigentlich gar nichts über Kurdistan“ – so begann der Journalist Holger Klein einen seiner Podcasts. Und so geht es den meisten Menschen in Deutschland. Einige erinnern sich an Karl Mays Werk Durchs Wilde Kurdistan, andere denken an den Krieg ge ...

Today is 'Working Journalist Day' but in Turkey journalists has nothing to celebrate said HDP Press and Propaganda deputy co-chair, Tayip Temel. ...

Journalist, activist and writer Rahila Gupta spoke about the killing of Sakine Cansız, Leyla Şaylemez and Fidan Doğan. ...

Repression of journalists continued in Turkey. Mezopotamy Agency correspondent Mehmet Aslan was remanded in custody in Antalya for alleged membership in a terrorist organization. ...

The HDP drew attention to the fact that the free press is still the target of the AKP-MHP government today in its commemoration of murdered journalist Metin Göktepe. ...

JINNEWS journalist Gülistan Azak, who went to HDP Amed provincial building to follow the news, was attacked by the group sitting in front of the building with the police. ...

ISTANBUL,— The Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday Turkish authorities should immediately release journalist Mehmet Aslan and cease harassing staffers of the Mezopotamya News Agency. The police in Istanbul arrested Aslan on Tuesday, a reporte ...

Mezopotamya Agency reporter Mehmet Aslan was taken into custody following a raid carried out on his home within the scope of political genocide operations. ...

Wiki Leaks founder, journalist Juliane Assange faces ruling on extradition to the US. ...

This week, the Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Of course, this is not the first time “picking quarrels” has been used as a blanket tool of repression. The ...

Journalist Zeynel Bulut said that the free press shows the truth and exposes the real face of the state which is why it became the target of the government. The AKP-MHP government, he said, is afraid of the facts and wants to keep them in the dark. ...

Turkish police has taken Jinnews reporter Gulistan Azak into custody in Pertek, Dersim. ...

Dem in der Türkei inhaftierten Journalisten Dindar Karataş drohen 15 Jahre Gefängnis wegen seiner kritischen Berichterstattung über das tödliche Vorgehen türkischer Sicherheitskräfte gegen kurdische Zivilisten. ...

Omar Sheikh was acquitted earlier this year of murdering the US journalist in Pakistan in 2002. ...

Journalist Dindar Karataş, imprisoned in Turkey, faces 15 years in prison for his critical reporting on the deadly crackdown by Turkish security forces on Kurdish civilians. ...

Turkish journalist Can Dündar was sentenced in absentia to more than 27 years in prison. ...

Kurdish journalist Zeynep Durgut, who was arrested in Cizre on Thursday, has been released on condition of judicial control. A ban on leaving the country was also imposed. ...

Mezopotamya Agency journalist Zeynep Durgut appeared in court accused of "acting on behalf of an illegal organization". ...

“Attacks against journalists overshadow press freedom and freedom of expression. Journalism is not a crime and must not be prosecuted as such,” said the CFWIJ on the detention of yet another journalist in Turkey. ...

At his grave in the Maxmur refugee camp, relatives and colleagues commemorated journalist Rizgar Deniz, who died three years ago. The ANHA correspondent was fatally injured in an ISIS attack in eastern Syria. ...

By : Bahozikurdistan Sarvin Executed Iranian journalist Ruhollah Zam was falsely promised release in a prisoner exchange by Iran’s authorities, who also gave him no notice of his execution, his father said on Saturday. Zam, who Iran had convicted of incit ...

RojNews journalist Zusik Hamed has been arrested in Çoman, South Kurdistan. The journalist had been criticising the arrest of youth activists on his social media. He has now been taken to the Soran Police Department. ...

Nach intensiven Gesprächen zwischen Ankara, Washington, London und Bonn ließ die Bundesregierung am 26. November 1993 die PKK verbieten. Mit der Unterstützung des Westens eskalierte das Çiller-Regime den Krieg. Perwer Yaş, Journalist der Nachrichtenagentu ...

"Hunderte von politischen Gefangenen sind immer noch zu Unrecht im Gefängnis. Mein Fall ist nur einer von Tausenden von Rechtswidrigkeiten." Journalist Can Dündar über den Prozess gegen ihn, der nach 5 Jahren am 23. Dez. enden soll. ...

Journalist Ayşegül Doğan was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Doğan was a program coordinator on İMC TV which was closed down through a governmental decree. ...

Journalist Dicle Müftüoğlu has been sentenced in Amed to over a year in prison for alleged propaganda for a terrorist organization. She is accused of having shared on social media a photo of the fight for Kobanê in 2014. ...

The 26th anniversary of the bombing of the Özgür Ülke newspaper will be protested at an event to be held tomorrow. Journalist Ersin Yıldız, who was murdered in the attack, will be commemorated at his graveyard. ...

Security forces in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq have held editor Sherwan Amin Sherwani for nearly two months. ...

Former Azadiya Welat newspaper journalist, Velat Öztekin, was sentenced to 1 year, 6 months and 22 days in prison. ...

Seven people taken into custody in the past few days appeared in Ankara Courthouse. Among them is Mezopotamya Agency journalist Hakan Yalçın. ...

Candemir's first book consists of 17 stories. The journalist tells with humor about the pain suffered by Kurds in Turkey. ...

Mezopotamya Agency journalist Dindar Karataş has been put in a isolation cell in Erzurum H Type Closed Prison. ...

Journalist with Mezopotamya (MA) news agency, Hakan Yalçın, was arrested during a police raid in the Turkish capital Ankara. ...

Dindar Karataş, a journalist with Mezopotamya Agency, was taken into custody following a raid in his house in Van on Tuesday. ...

Following the detention of Mezopotamya Agency journalist Dindar Karataş, police searched the Van office of the agency, while a anti-riot TOMA vehicle was stationed outside it, and seized technical equipment. ...

Dindar Karataş, a journalist with Mezopotamya Agency, was taken into custody following a raid in his house in Van. ...

Aliyas Dayee, a "voice for the voiceless" in Helmand, was killed by a bomb earlier this month. ...

Der kurdische Journalist Nuri Akman erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen die rumänischen Behörden. Nachdem er sich in Bukarest erfolgreich gegen seine Auslieferung an die Türkei gewehrt hat, ist er wieder freigelassen worden. ...