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13:46

The Kurdish Youth Movement will hold protests in France, Germany and Switzerland to demand the physical freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

12:29

“Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning. The era of global warming has ended and the era of global boiling has arrived,” the UN secretary general, António Guterres said.

11:23

“Our wounds will not heal without the prosecution of ISIS,” said women of Manbij, who support the decision of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) on the prosecution of ISIS members.

10:19

The first round of university entrance exams was held in Afghanistan without girls this year. Nazanin, one of the Afghan girls who were not allowed to take the exam, secretly teaches math and English to girls in home-based school.

14:26

Kurdistan Society Freedom Movement member Şahen Muhammed says that the KDP has sent aid to ISIS in North and East Syria through the Barzani Charity Foundation.

12:48

Egyptian lawyer Heba Salah says poor Egyptian families marry off their daughters at a young age by depriving them of their right to education because they see their daughters as an economic burden.

11:04

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian child during an Israeli raid on the city of Qalqiliya, the occupied West Bank.

09:36

“Education is like turning a light on in a dark house,” said women receiving education at Kobanê Martyr Şîlan Academy, drawing attention to the change that education created in their personalities.

14:34

The one-month deadline given by the Taliban to close down all beauty and hair salons in Afghanistan has ended. In the country, about 12,000 beauty and hair salons have been closed down, leaving 60,000 women unemployed.

14:25

Bianet's women and LGBTI+ rights editor Evrim Kepenek has been detained during a police raid at her residence in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district.

14:17

Journalists Sibel Yükler, Fırat Can Arslan and Delal Akyüz were detained in the morning in the house raids conducted in Ankara.

09:56

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) released a statement expressing Afghan women’s gratitude to the Kurdistan Women’s Communities (KJK) for standing with them and making their voices heard all around the world.

14:10

The final hearing in the murder trial of Şimoni Diril was held today. Apro Diril has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Şimoni Diril, two accused have been acquitted.

13:47

The indictment against 19 people, including Dicle Fırat Journalists’ Association Co-chair Dicle Müftüoğlu and MA editor Sedat Yılmaz has been prepared.

11:26

Displaced people of Afrin, who settled in the Shahba Canton of North and East Syria, have been going through difficult times due to the siege imposed by the Syrian government and the ongoing Turkish attacks on the canton.

10:20

Turkish special forces police battered two shepherds at Wargevik outpost located in the Cilo region of Gever (Yüksekova). Being threatened with death, the shepherds will file a criminal complaint.

09:26

Zozan Bekir, coordinating member of the Kongra Star says the Rojava Revolution has united Kurdish people divided by the Treaty of Lausanne.

13:39

LeMan and Bayan Yanı, two satirical magazines in Turkey, have posted the caricatures of Başak Demirtaş on their social media accounts. On the caricatures, they wrote, “We stand by you, Başak Demirtaş.”

11:44

A woman was shot to death in Duhok by an unidentified person or persons.

11:16

Iranian human rights activist Leyla Ziafar, who has a Ph.D. in the food industry, was arrested in Tehran on Wednesday for posting a tweet against Iran’s mandatory hijab law.