On 28 December 2011, thirty four villagers, nineteen of them children, lost their lives as a result of being bombed by warplanes of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) near the village of Roboski in Şırnak (Şırnex), Uludere district.Read More
Covid-19 vaccines developed by BioNTech and Pfizer have been delivered to all the European Union (EU) countries. Vaccination programmes commenced in member states and the announcement of the EU-wide vaccine initiative was made by the EU Commission’s president.Read More
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) whose special forces attacked three guerrillas between Kanê and Dêreshê villages in Iraqi Kurdistan on 13 December, want to construct a permanent checkpoint in the same area as the attack according to reports.Read More
Savan Abdalrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan The Committee to Protect Journalism (CPJ), an independent, nonprofit organisation for promoting press freedom worldwide, addressed an open letter on 23 December to Masrour Barzani, the prime minister of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, asking him to respect the freedom of press.Read More
Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Mobile cafés and coffee trucks are becoming ubiquitous in Egypt.Read More
International campaigns have been launched to end the prison isolation conditions in Turkey of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. After 21 years of isolation at İmralı, prisoners in Turkey have also recently initiated a hunger strike to demand an end to Öcalan’s isolation. Erdoğan Alayumat, a journalist from Mesopotamia Agency (MA), has assessed aspects of this […]Read More
As the economic crisis deepens in Turkey, animal breeders are among the worst affected by rising costs.Read More
On 28 December 2011, thirty four civilians, nineteen of them children, died as a result of the bombardment by warplanes of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in the village of Roboski in Şırnak (Şırnex), Uludere district, in Turkey.Read More
The common denominator of refugees living far away from their homeland can be summarised in one word: diaspora. As a sociopolitical term, diaspora refers to the dispersal of people from their homeland to other countries, individually or en masse.Read More
Kurdistan Free Women’s Party (PAJK’s) Coordination member Raperin Munzur, in an assessment of the political situation in the Middle East, has stated that Turkey aims to wage war even as the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Iraqi Kurdistan is being used as a ‘counter force’. Munzur warned that such a situation will result in the […]Read More
