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A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of six Kurdish journalists who were detained in a police operation across several provinces last week, the Media and Law Studies Association (MLSA) reported.
The journalists, detained following a series of raids on their homes in İstanbul, the eastern province of Van and the southern province of Mersin on Friday, were referred to an İstanbul court following their interrogation by prosecutors, who subsequently ordered their arrest on Monday.
The arrestees are Reyhan Hacıoğlu, a former editor for the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem newspaper, which was shut down by government decree in 2016; Necla Demir, the former publisher of the Gazete Karınca news website; Yeni Yaşam newspaper columnist Ahmet Güneş; Rahime Karvar; Vedat Örüç and Velat Ekin.
As part of the investigation conducted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the journalists are accused of “membership in a terrorist organization” — the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — on the basis of their journalistic activities.
The arrest of the journalists is part of a troubling trend in Turkey, where the government has increasingly been suppressing the press, particularly those voicing opposition or reporting on sensitive issues, such as Kurdish rights.
The international community, including human rights organizations, has repeatedly condemned these actions, which they see as attempts to stifle freedom of expression and suppress dissenting voices.
Kurdish journalists in Turkey frequently face legal harassment, stand trial and are sentenced to prison for covering issues related to Kurds and the PKK, which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.
Actualización 3 de dic: ofensiva en el norte de Siria
Hechos clave
– Alrededor de 75.000 personas desplazadas desde Alepo y sus alrededores hacia el norte y el este de Siria. – Miles de personas duermen a la intemperie en condiciones gélidas; se han registrado múltiples muertes, hay necesidad urgente de refugio y otros tipos de ayuda humanitaria.
– Grave riesgo de inminente asalto respaldado por Turquía contra Manbij, gobernada por la DAANES, con una población multiétnica de unos 300.000 habitantes, lo que provocaría una mayor desestabilización.
Mapa RIC, 3 diciembre 2024
– Los barrios de Sheikh Maqsoud y Ashrafiyeh siguen asediados por Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, mientras la violencia se ceba con los yezidíes y los kurdos que intentan huir de las fuerzas islamistas.
Desplazamiento forzoso hacia el norte y el este de Siria
– c. 75.000 personas desplazadas de alepo y alrededores hacia el norte y este de siria, principalmente kurdos junto con otras minorías, así como árabes (OCHA: 10K grupos familiares; DAANES: 75-100K individuos; MEE: 120K individuos).
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– Miles de personas han dormido a la intemperie durante las dos últimas noches a temperaturas bajo cero, y fuentes del RIC han informado de la muerte de al menos tres ancianos
– Decenas de miles de personas han sido trasladadas fuera de la región de Shehba/Tel Rifaat, tomada hace dos días por las milicias del Ejército Nacional Sirio respaldadas por Turquía, que anteriormente expulsaron al grueso de la población kurda y a todos los yazidíes y cristianos de la región de Afrin en 2018.
Members of London’s Kurdish community have set up a solidarity encampment, and launched a hunger strike, to protest violent police raids and the arrests of seven people for terrorism offences.
Members of London’s Kurdish community have initiated a protest encampment and hunger strike, aimed at defending Haringey’s Kurdish Community Centre (KCC) against police repression.
Raid on community centre and several homes
On 27 November, police mounted a violent raid of the KCC. Officers smashed their way in with sledgehammers, and blocked nearby streets. Several homes were also raided and the families of those arrested, some of them children, were beaten by officers. Seven people have now been arrested.
A statement from the community said: “Between 2 and 3am on the morning of Wednesday, November 27, Met Police raided the homes of… Kurdish activists, arresting them, and beating their families, including children. Their families were then expelled from their homes and will not be allowed to return for 14 days.”
Kurds who were expelled by pro-Turkish Arabs from the Afrin canton in 2018 are now being expelled from the Shebha region. For the second time in 8 years they are leaving as refugees, with nothing, suffering ethnic cleansing
Humanitarian drama with ethnic cleansing against Kurds in northern Syria Between 40,000 and 200,000 people, mostly Kurds, are surrounded in northwestern Syria. In…..
Syria, Russia and Iran have already rushed to confront the Turkish and US (and probably Israeli) funded HTS/Al Qaeda warlord’s breakout from the Idlib statelet. The Rojava multi-ethnic SDF forces have also broken out and are confronting the Jihadis in Aleppo city and Tel Rifaat
Rebel factions successfully seized control of most of the city of Aleppo, Syria, on November 30, 2024, after intense clashes and fierce battles with Assad regime forces. (Photo by Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto) (Photo by Rami Alsayed / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)
The interplay of external forces mirrors broader trends of rivalry among major powers, increasing the likelihood of a large-scale conflict
In recent days, northern Syria has witnessed intense fighting, marking the most violent clashes since March 2020, when a ceasefire was brokered with the involvement of Russia and Turkey.
On the morning of November 27, anti-government groups launched an offensive in the Aleppo and Idlib provinces. According to reports, the operation involves Islamist factions, including Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a group banned in Russia, as well as armed opposition forces such as the US and Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army.
Infiltrators celebrate in Aleppo City as Clashes continue between government forces and the ex Al Qaeda armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, Syria, November 29, 2024
By the morning of November 28, opposition forces declared the capture of about a dozen settlements, including strategically significant areas such as Urm al-Sughra, Anjara, and Al-Houta, located west of Aleppo..
Additionally, they claimed to have seized the 46th Brigade Base, the largest military base of the Syrian army. Rebel sources reported capturing five tanks, an infantry fighting vehicle, and a stockpile of missiles.
On the same day, insurgents conducted a precision strike on a helicopter at the An-Nayrab airbase. Reports from Anadolu and CNN indicated that key positions, including Kafr Basma, Urum al-Kubra, and several strategic highlands, fell under rebel control.
On November 28, the group Al-Fateh al-Mubin announced the capture of Khan al-Assal, located just 7 kilometers from Aleppo, along with ten tanks.
The rebels claimed that panic and declining morale were spreading among President Bashar Assad’s forces.
Meanwhile, the offensive also advanced south and east of Idlib, a rebel stronghold since 2015. The rebels reported taking Dadikh and Kafr Batikh, and dozens of villages near the vital M5 highway.
Over the course of three days, militants reportedly captured at least 70 settlements, spanning approximately 400 square kilometers across both provinces.
By the evening of November 29, participants in the operation declared the capture of Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city.
A man and a woman arrived in a yellow taxi and attacked the huge Military Airforce Production Complex that produces the drones massacring civilians in Rojava in Syria and Sinjar in Iraq, 5 people were killed. The two attackers were also killed .. A media circus ensuedover the ‘Horrific Terrorism’
Türkiye’s state controlled NTV claimed one of them detonated a bomb while the other entered the building.
TUSAS manufactures US F-16 fighter jets under license from General Dynamics as well as attack helicopters, and huge drone industry for the Turkish military and export.
Turkiye blamed the PKK Kurdish guerilla resistance and named the two fighters which appeared to derail the long awaited rapprochament with the heavily oppressed Kurds.
However it now appears that secret talks were already well under way, offering the legendary Ocalan parole after 25 years in isolation prison – in exchange for persuading the PKK leaders to “lay down their arms” and begin a new peace process.
Türkiyesays it yet again hit ‘Kurdish targets’ blaming the PKK , killing at least 12 in Syria, according to the Syrian Defence Forces (SDF) and more in Iraq in ongoing ‘revenge attacks’ for the attack on its Aerospace and Defense complex. Turkey, like Israel boasts continuing genocidal invasions, three in Syria, bombing Rojava and Northern Iraq.
The PKK did nor totally deny the attack which may therefore be the work of a disaffected splinter group unhappy with attempts to stop the war wen they have defeated Turkey’s latest offensive on their mountain hideouts in Iraq.
TUSAS, designs, manufactures and assembles civilian and military aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other defence industry and space systems with over 15,000 workers.
People inspect a site damaged by Turkish air strikes in Hasakeh province, Syria. Turkey has frequently hit northern regions of Syria and Iraq, targeting Kurdish groups [File: Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
Images, videos of Turkishrevenge bombing damage 24 October 2024 – 14:48 The Ministry of National Defence said 32 targets were “destroyed” in the aerial offensive on Wednesday, without providing details on the locations that were hit. It said “all kinds of precautions” were taken to prevent harm to civilians.
Message from Leader Abdullah Ocalan who may be released to begion Peace Process -“The Nelson Mandela” of Kurdistan
Omar Ocalan conveyed a message from leader Abdullah Ocalan, stating: The leader said that ‘if the conditions are right, I have the theoretical and practical power to move this process from a ground of conflict and violence to a legal and political ground.”
The PKK represents nearly 20 million unrecognized and heavily repressed Kurdish people in Türkiye, and many beyond, and Ocalan is widely hailed as their leader due to his practical revolutionary works, his transformation of the PKK from terrorism to horizontal democracy and feminism, and his successful organizing of two long ceasefires and the ‘Kurdish Spring’ (destroyed by Erdogan in 2015 with a military blitz when Kurdish reps threatened to hold the balance of power).
Two of the sources said that Ocalan had been allowed recently to speak directly to the PKK leadership that is based in the Qandil Mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan. “Ocalan told them it was time to discuss laying down their arms,” one of the sources said. https://t.co/lXHfiFp7WB
All they asked for was peace and horizontal democracy: This is what Erdogan did to Kurdish cities just over the border in Türkiyein 2015 as the west kept silent.
demonstration in a street of Kobani for the release of Apo, Abdullah ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Western mass media publishes Turkish SHOCK HORROR REVENGE stories on the attack on the War Weapons Center but never a word on the YEARS of constant Turkish state terrorist attacks on the Kurds, especially those in Nth Syria.
Erdogan ordered the years long shelling of infrastructure and Drone Murder Campaign in Nth Syria after International pressure to avoid a fourth illegal Invasion.
It remains to be seen whether a new Peace Process could include Rojava in NE Syria which is run by the multi-ethnic AANES and their ‘Kurdish-led SDF army. The many Kurdish organisations in Rojava deny direcy links toin the PKK but Turkiye and the west always claim they are the same thing, and they do all follow the revolutionary non-separatist of Ocalan.
Rohava is in a dangerous position as it gets protection from the USA since it became the proxy army which destroyed the ISIS HQ and controlled area and continues fighting ISIS resurgents and managing the huge Al Hol ISIS ptison camp.
AANES is attacked from all sides and are accused of being US proxies in their support for Israeli genocidal wars, although the small US force is against their ideology, has never intervened to defend them from Turkish massacres and invasions and are maintained more as an anti Irani base. The oil resources are small with no refinery.
The US has agreed in principle to finally close its neighbouring Iraqi bases, now also under attack from the Islamic Resistance militias, which would leave their few Syrian forces totally isolated. A US pullout could be the signal for Turkiye, and Syria to attack and carve up Rojava .
Russia cannot afford to block Turkiye`s imperialist ambitions and the Iranian regime is suppressinjg its own Kurdish minority and abhors the strong women’s freedom movement in Rojava
A woman protests the murder by Türkiye of five fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forcesin Rojava
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Here are just a few of HUNDREDS of suppressed reports on Turkish terrorist attacks that merit as much attention as the attack on Erdogan’s weapons center
The Turkish occupation expanded its shelling of cities in the region, as its drones targeted the electricity distribution station and its surroundings in the city of Amuda.
The General Command explained that the Turkish occupation targeted populated villages, service and vital facilities, and a number of security points using various weapons.
The General Command stated that the Turkish occupation targeted with 55 artillery shells and 11 mortar shells the countryside of Tal Tamr city in Jazera Canton, namely: “Tal al-Ward Gharbi, Khirbet al-Sha’ir, al-Rabi’at, al-Tawila, Tal Tawil, Kifji, Umm al-Kif”, and the villages of the Shahba regions “Umm al-Qura, Tanb, Tal Rifaat” where there are tens of thousands of refugees from Turkey’s ethnic cleansing with total impunity of Afrin..
It also targeted vital and service facilities in both the Jazera and Euphrates using drones and warplanes, as follows: “Amouda power station, grain silos in Qamishli – oil station in Kojarat – fuel transfer station (twice), al-Sa’ida oil station (3 times), Awda oil station (twice), Amuda city bakery – Kobani city bakery, Kobani power station (3 times), Rumelan oil station (10 times), 8 civilian facilities in Qamishli, Derik and Kobani)”.
The General Command confirmed that the drones targeted 4 checkpoints of their forces in the Euphrates Canton, and 6 checkpoints in Jazera Canton. As a result of the targeting, 25 people were injured and 12 lost their lives, including two children.
Continuing its assault on infrastructure in the Jazera Canton, the Turkish occupation also targeted oil and gas stations, as well as electricity conversion stations in the eastern countryside of the canton.
People inspect a site damaged by Turkish air strikes in Hasakeh province, Syria. Turkey has frequently hit northern regions of Syria and Iraq, targeting Kurdish groups [File: Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
The targeted stations and centers are: Suwaidiyah Station, the gas plant in Suwaidiyah Station, the oil collection and conversion station in Tufayla, Saeediyah Station, and Awda Station.
Turkish warplanes bombed the Saeeda oil station in the northern countryside of Tirbespiyê in the Jazera Canton, NE Syria.
The bombing caused significant material damage to the targeted stations, in addition to injuring a worker at the targeted gas plant, according to an initial toll.
The Turkish bombing on the villages of Samouqa, Tal Madiq, Tal Gigan and Shahba Dam resulted in the injury of 4 children, one of whom (Fares Ibrahim, 13 years old) later martyred from his injures.
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