Breaking: Turkish Parliament’s Peace Commission Approves Imrali Visit
Picture Credits: The Offical website of the Turkish Parliament Turkey’s National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission – set up to drive the peace process between the country’s Kurdish population and the Turkish state – has approved sending a parliamentary delegation to Imrali Island Prison to meet jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. This marks the most […]
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The Struggle and Revival of the Kurdish Language
Once whispered in secret and prohibited from even the simplest outdoor conversations, the Kurdish language has long shared the struggle of its people–enduring repression, exile, and erasure. Today, as a result of decades of struggle, it is beginning to carve out a fragile presence in the world, finding its voice in the context of new […]
How Turkey’s 2025 Mining Law reshapes land, law, and resistance
A new omnibus bill is currently being debated in the Turkish parliament, with five articles approved as of July 17, 2025. Officially titled the “Bill on Amending Certain Laws” (2/3159) but referred to by the public as the “Süper İzinli Talan Yasası” (literally, the “Super Permit for Plundering Law,” amplifying the bill’s enabling of environmental […]
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