Deputy Co-chair of the Shengal Autonomous Council Heso Ibrahîm shared that during the ISIS genocide, Massoud Barzani told the spiritual leader of the Yazidis, Xertu Haji Ismail, "Tell your nation to be Muslim".
The hunger strike prioners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 92. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 71 while it is day 54 in Greece.
Çetin Yıldız who is on a hunger strike demanding the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan to be removed and the violations in prisons to end in Tarsus No 2 Type F Prison, told that they won't take a step back until their demands are met.
TGS Ankara Branch President Esra Koçak Mayda, who filed a criminal complaint regarding Ankara Police's interventions against journalists working in the field, stated that they will continue to fight for journalists doing their jobs and to deliver news to the public.
The chief public prosecutor’s office has given a decision of non-prosecution for journalist Oktay Candemir, who was investigated over a tweet critical of TV series about the Ottoman times.
The application of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers to meet with their clients was rejected.
Not recognizing the decision of the court, HDP Kadıköy District Executive Koray Türkay rejected the ankle monitor on grounds that it symbolizes slavery.
The hunger strike prioners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 91. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 70 while it is day 53 in Greece.
SES Ordu Branch Chair Ferit Ceylan said that the main reason for the increase in coronavirus cases in the Black Sea provinces is the crowded congresses held by the AKP.
Ramazan Akbaşlı, a prisoner alleged to have attempted to commit suicide in Van F Type Closed Prison, has died. It was learned that Akbaşlı's remanins will be buried in his hometown, in the province of Saray.
The hearing of the trial against Özgür Gündem newspaper's co-editor-in-chief Hüseyin Aykol, managing editor Reyhan Çapan and various journalists was postponed to 22 June.
Boltan was put on trial on the grounds that his name was mentioned in the list of delegates seized in a police raid on the office of Democratic Society Congress (DTK). He was facing up to 15 years in prison.
Reacting to the article in the New York Times called "In Turkey’s Safe Zone in Syria, Security and Misery Go Hand in Hand", written by NYT's İstanbul reporter Carlotta Gall, Afrin Post stated that the article did not reflect the truth and Gall was trying to whitewash the invasion.
5 years have passed since Rohat Aktaş was killed during the curfews in Cizde. Aktaş refused to leave Cizre during the curfews, saying 'Being a journalist would not have any meaning if I don't witness and write about what's happening here'. Describing what she lived through during that period, his mother Meliha Aktaş said that the cruelty and persecution must end.
Rûdaw reporters Tahsin Kasım and Naif Ido were detained by Hashdi Shabi in Shengal.