Speaking to Mesomotamia News Agency, Ayşe Acar Başaran, the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) MP for Batman in Turkey said: “The system in İmralı is political, so the struggle against it should be political”.Read More
The Union of Public Sector Employees’ (UNISON’s) Falkirk Branch Chair Margaret Cook and UNISON Women’s Network Chair Pat Heron spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika about the work of women’s trade unionists in the United Kingdom and their project of women’s solidarity with Kurdish women activists against misogyny in Turkey. Heron also stated: “We should also […]Read More
At least 30 women were murdered by men in November, according to a Jinnews report on femicides in Turkey. The report arrived at this figure after having examined media coverage of femicides during November.Read More
During a raid at her house on 1 December, Turkish police officers forced Berivan Kutlu, the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) former Co-Mayor of Cizre municipality in Şırnak (Şirnex), to lie face down and stood on her back when she refused to kneel before them.Read More
The European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress (KCDK-E) Co-Presidency Council issued a statement calling for strong participation in its demonstration – to be held on 5 December – against the Sinjar agreement. “Everywhere is Sinjar, everywhere is resistance – in Europe, Canada, Australia and all over the world. We need to take action against the occupation […]Read More
Economist Çeleng Ömer from Afrin (Efrîn) University has shared images of an olive processing facility in Afrin, in northern Syria, where olive oil is produced. He reports that the revenue from this olive oil production facility – amounting to as much as 100 million USD – has been spent on militant groups.Read More
Young activists from the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) marched in Diyarbakır (Amed) in south-eastern Turkey to express their solidarity with the hunger strikers in Turkish prisons. “A thousand greetings to the comrades who are resisting in the prisons”, they chanted whilst marching.Read More
Civilians who have been forcibly displaced in northeastern Syria as a consequence of the attacks by Turkish-backed mercenaries spoke to Hawar News Agency. They reported that the mercenaries had pillaged their villages and were refusing to let them re-enter them.Read More
“The Yezidis living on Mount Sinjar provide the last chance for Yezidi culture to survive. Humanity is bound not to let the occupation of Sinjar take place”, Zozan Sima concluded in her column for Yeni Özgür Politika, which assessed the significance of the preservation of the Yezidi culture in Sinjar.Read More
Living conditions are getting harder each day in Turkey due to the economic crisis only to be made even worse because of the coronavirus pandemic. Most people can hardly afford to pay their rent, and bills like electricity, water, natural gas and telephone. A Mesopotamia News Agency reports about the lives of citizens living in […]Read More
