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  • Journalist Meşale Tolu acquitted 

    11:32

    Journalist Meşale Tolu has been acquitted of all terror-related charges.

  • Journalists targeted in Federal Kurdistan 

    11:28

    The Metro Center for Journalists Rights & Advocacy has released its report on rights violations against journalists in the Federal Kurdistan Region.

  • Protest of Gülistan Doku’s family enters its 18th day: Where is Gülistan? 

    09:52

    The family of Gülistan Doku, who has been missing for two years, has held a sit-in protest in front of the Tunceli Courthouse for 18 days. The family demands a complete investigation into Gülistan Doku's disappearance and legal consequences for those responsible.

  • Egyptian journalist Amal Makkawi dies 

    09:36

    Egyptian journalist Amal Makkawi died on Sunday (January 16).

  • Sit-in protest enters its 315th day 

    12:22

    Emine Şenyaşar has demanded justice for 315 days but the authorities remain silent.

  • Lebanese women discuss gender-based violence 

    14:22

    Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections (LADE) held an online meeting on January 12 in cooperation with the Canadian Embassy in Lebanon to discuss gender-based violence. At the meeting, the women drew attention that there are laws protecting women in Lebanon; however, they aren’t implemented. The women also emphasized that women should be economically empowered in order to reduce violence.

  • Sit-in protest for justice enters its 312th day 

    12:40

    “Instead of applying the principles of the law, you followed the instructions of the superiors. You will carry all burdens,” the Şenyaşar family told the Urfa Chief Public Prosecutor on their social media account.

  • Prisoners objecting to body search not allowed to have contact visits 

    12:30

    Female prisoners held in the Diyarbakır Closed Women’s Prison were reportedly tried to be searched in front of the camera before their contact visits. After objecting to the body searches, they weren’t reportedly allowed to have contact visits. According to the reports we received, the prisoners’ families have been banned from having contact visits with their relatives for two months.

  • 311th day of sit-in protest: “I will hold the protest until my son is released” 

    12:50

    Emine Şenyaşar came in front of the Urfa Courthouse to demand justice for her killed relatives and her jailed son despite her health problems.

  • Mothers demand their children’s dead bodies for 100 days 

    14:50

    For 100 days, the mothers of Rojava have demanded the Federal Kurdistan Regional government to give their children’s dead bodies to them.

  • Sit-in protest for justice enters its 310th day 

    12:00

    Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice for their killed relatives for 310 days.

  • Meet Libyan first female boxer: Malak Al-Mazoughi 

    11:55

    Libyan first female boxer 21-year-old Malak Al-Mazoughi calls on all women to learn this sport so that they can defend and protect themselves. “I began to do this sport to protect myself against a possible sexual harassment,” she told us.

  • Suspicious death of Yasmin Aziz 

    08:35

    Yasmin Aziz, who struggled for 34 days at a hospital due to severe burns on her body in Rıha, passed away at the hospital two days ago. Two men, who were at home on the day when Yasmin Aziz was seriously injured as a result of flammable materials, haven’t been reportedly questioned about the incident yet.

  • Press freedom report of 2021 

    08:30

    While journalists’ organizations have been releasing their reports on the freedom of the press around the world in 2021, Özge Yurttaş, secretary-general of the Press and Printing House Workers' Union of Turkey (DİSK Basın-İş), draws attention to the importance of creating a democratic society to prevent violence against press workers.

  • Şenyaşar family demands justice for 309 days 

    10:25

    Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice for their killed relatives in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 309 days.

  • Killed 3 Kurdish women politicians commemorated in Shengal 

    13:09

    A commemoration ceremony was held in Shengal for Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, who were killed in Paris on January 9, 2013.

  • Sit-in protest for justice enters its 308th day 

    13:00

    Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have held a sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse demanding justice for 206 days despite the silence of the authorities.

  • They build shelter using ruins left by war 

    12:58

    Citizens, forcibly displaced to Til Ruman, a Syriac village, used the ruins of houses destroyed by ISIS in the village to build a shelter for themselves.

  • Who is responsible for the stray animals? 

    11:25

    President Erdoğan has ordered all stray dogs to be captured and thrown into government shelters. The Animal Rights Monitoring Committee (HAKİM) Coordinator Fatma Biltekin told our agency what should be done when the issue of “stray animal” turns into a slaughter of stray animals by Erdoğan's order.

  • “We are killed in our houses” 

    11:22

    Yesterday, Turkey conducted a drone strike on civilians in Kobanî and its rural areas killing one civilian and injuring 11 civilians, mostly women. “We are killed in our houses. Their real aim is to force people to displace,” said the people we interviewed after the attack.