Serhad cities celebrating the Newroz
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- 13:17 21/3/2021
Newroz celebrations started in the cities of Serhat region with the participation of thousands of people. In the very colourful festival area, people are dancing the halay for freedom.
Newroz celebrations started in the cities of Serhat region with the participation of thousands of people. In the very colourful festival area, people are dancing the halay for freedom.
The celebration continues with great enthusiasm in the Newroz area, which was filled before the program starts in Antep.
Kemal Kurkut, who was killed by the police in Diyarbakır 2017 Newroz, was commemorated where he was shot.
Van Castle skirts, witnessing one of the most magnificent Newroz celebrations of the recent years, echo with the slogan “Bijî Serok Apo”.
Despite the ban decision of the governorship in Dersim, the people of the city who came together in Seyit Rıza Square started to celebrate Newroz.
People in Adana are flocking to the festival area with the slogan 'Let's resist with Newroz fire and liberate ourselves' while dancing the halay.
The people of Diyarbakır, who flocked to Newroz Square with the posters of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, gave the message of "Kurdish national unity" with banners and slogans.
Millions filling the festival areas in Diyarbakır, Batman, Nusaybin, Şırnak, Cizre, Van, Doğubeyazıt, Urfa and Adana, are celebrating Newroz with joy. Our agency will be broadcasting the celebrations in 9 cities live through out the day.
The joy in the area where people gathered to celebrate the Newroz in Cizre increases by the hour.
The hunger strike prisoners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 115. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 94 while it is day 77 in Greece.
HDP MP Hüseyin Kaçmaz who witnessed Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu being dragged into custody by the police inside the parliament, told what happened was worse than what happened back in 1994 and said: "They didn't even let him wear his clothes or perform his morning prayer. They dragged him away."
Staging a sit in at the parliament after he was stripped of from his status as an MP, HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu was detained at the parliament.
Scores of people including Kurdish writer Adil Başaran and HDP Provincial Deputy Co-Chair Ahmet Eken was detained in an operation early this morning.
While the KDCP called for all out struggle against the withdrawal from the İstanbul Convention, TKDF Chair Canan Güllü said: "Gentlemen, you can not withdraw from the convention without voting it at the parliament!"