At the conference on the Kurdish issue, IHD Co-Chair Küçükbalaban emphasized that the way should be paved for negotiations with PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan for the solution of the Kurdish issue, while DEM Party member Cengiz Candar said that a relief process could occur if the main idea of Ocalan's 2013 letter is returned.
36 years have passed since the massacre in Halabja in which thousands of people lost their lives as a result of the poison gas attack.
The hunger strike of political prisoners in prisons demanding the physical freedom of PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan has reached its 111th day.
There has been no news from Rojnews editor Suleyman Ahmet, who has been detained by KDP's intelligence agency Parastin for 144 days.
Those who witnessed the '92 Newroz in Şirnex, where many people were massacred, emphasized that they did not give up celebrating despite all the prohibitions and obstacles, and said: "Newroz is language, identity, culture for us."
The reduced prison sentence of 10 years and 10 months given to imam Kadri Ozkaya, who sexually abused a child in the mosque, was approved on appeal.
The fire lit by Rahşan Demirel has become louder every year. Demirel protested the Newroz bans in Kadifekale by self-immolation and left a note saying "I am informing Ismet Sezgin; Newroz will be celebrated, If not with tires, then with our lives."
Sultan Acar, whose wife was murdered by Hizbulkontra in Êlih, said: "Today, they say 'we did not kill civilians at that time'. They both killed and disappeared. We will never forgive them."
There has been no news from Rojnews editor Suleyman Ahmet, who has been detained by KDP's intelligence agency Parastin for 143 days.
The hunger strike of political prisoners in prisons demanding the physical freedom of PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan has reached its 110th day.
The slogans determined for the Newroz Festival, which started to be celebrated by millions of people since the early 2000s, were shaped around the demands of the Kurds and the developments that left their mark on the year.
Feyyaz Başak, who is held in Elazığ High Security Prison No. 2, stated that the prisoners on hunger strike were put in cells and called for public awareness.
It was stated that the wards of Diyarbakır High Security Prison No. 2 were raided and the prisoners were forced to "sit down" and "take off their shoes".
The lawyers of Asrın Law Firm applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client Abdullah Ocalan, whom they had not heard from for 36 months.
DEM Party Provincial Co-Chair Mustafa Mesut Tekik, one of the witnesses of the period when Hizbulkontra massacred politicians, intellectuals and journalists with hogties in Urfa, said: "All those murdered were shopkeepers, taxi drivers, imams and journalists. No one must expect us to forget.”