Ylenia Gostoli

1 month ago | newarab.com | Ylenia Gostoli

Turkey's opposition has vowed to continue a campaign of protests and civil disobedience despite a massive government crackdown on protesters, journalists, and artists. After a pause for the Eid holidays and the temporary closure of universities, thousands of young people gathered on Tuesday in Istanbul’s Kadikoy - a neighbourhood known as an opposition stronghold - in solidarity with fellow students arrested in Sarachane. A similar demonstration took place in Ankara.

2 months ago | altreconomia.it | Ylenia Gostoli

Sono stati i giovani studenti tra i primi ad animare piazza Sarachane a Istanbul, marciando dagli atenei fino al municipio. Qui, già dal tardo pomeriggio del 21 marzo, si sono ritrovati in centinaia, due giorni dopo l’arresto del sindaco Ekrem İmamoğlu. “Gli studenti sono arrivati, dov’è Özgür?”, gridano in coro, esortando il leader del Partito popolare repubblicano (Chp), Özgür Özel, a uscire e parlare alla folla.

Feb 18, 2025 | theafricanmirror.africa | Ylenia Gostoli

This story was originally published by The New Humanitarian. By Ylenia Gostoli Three weeks after US President Donald Trump’s order to freeze foreign aid, Syrians are already seeing medical clinics providing urgent assistance close, water distributions slow down, and bread distribution in many displacement camps grind to a halt. After nearly 14 years of war, the UN estimates that 16.5 million people across Syria need some sort of aid.

Feb 17, 2025 | thenewhumanitarian.org | Ylenia Gostoli

Republish this article Three weeks after US President Donald Trump’s order to freeze foreign aid, Syrians are already seeing medical clinics providing urgent assistance close, water distributions slow down, and bread distribution in many displacement camps grinds to a halt. After nearly 14 years of war, the UN estimates that 16.5 million people across Syria need some sort of aid. While the December overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad is beginning to change the way aid works in the country,...

Dec 9, 2024 | english.alaraby.co.uk | Ylenia Gostoli

Scenes of jubilation erupted on Sunday outside Istanbul’s Fatih Mosque, in the neighbourhood that shares its name, after Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad was ousted from power following a quarter-century of authoritarian rule. Syria's civil war, sparked by peaceful protests calling for regime change in 2011, has dragged on for nearly fourteen years.