Fréderike Geerdink The Rojava Film Commune is working on a new feature film. It will be about the Turkish invasion of Serêkaniyê, Northeast-Syria, which happened last year in October. So while Turkey is violating human rights on a large scale, as was confirmed again in a United Nations report this week, the film commune members […]Read More
Fréderike Geerdink Kurdistan Region President Neçhirvan Barzani visited Ankara. I couldn’t help but think of Ottoman times, when Kurdish clan leaders maintained good relationships with the Sultan in Constantinople, which benefitted both sides to the detriment of the common people.Read More
Selahattin Erdem’s report from Yeni Özgür Politika It isn’t exactly clear how the Macron administration in France will oppose the current policies of the Justice and Development Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (AKP-MHP) coalition government in Turkey.Read More
Fréderike Geerdink There are at least five journalists presently detained in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). In Duhok, the offices of TV-station NRT have been shut by the authorities after they had been raided and their equipment seized and a law suit was opened against them. Why? Because they reported on the civil unrest […]Read More
Fréderike Geerdink What I remember most vividly about the young German woman I met in a PKK-camp in the Qandil mountains where we both spent the summer of 2016, was her intelligence. She identified herself as an anarchist and struggled with her dedication to the cause of real self-determination for the people. She had gotten […]Read More
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