Rohat Baran Translated from Yeni Özgür Politika Impositions on – and attacks against – Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan have reached a new stage with the deployment of ten thousand soldiers by the Baghdad administration.Read More
The Turkish ambassador to Austria, Ozan Ceyhun, has denied Kurdish-Austrian politician Berivan Aslan’s origins in an interview.Read More
Professor Cengiz Aktar works at the University of Athens. For 22 years he has worked as an executive with various organisations of the United Nations. Aktar was interviewed by Mehmet Ali Çelebi, a journalist from the Yeni Yaşam Newsletter.Read More
The Free Women’s Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad – TJA) appealed to the public for solidarity regarding the hunger strikes that were launched on 27 November by political prisoners in Turkey.Read More
After they announced their support for the hunger strikes that started on 27 November in prisons in Turkey, the cells of imprisoned female Kurdish politicians were raided in Kandıra No. 1 Type-F Prison. During the raid, police confiscated all the written materials and books of the politicians.Read More
Zeycan Yedigöl, a Saturday Mother who searched for her missing son Nurettin Yedigöl for 39 years, has died at the age of 98. She was laid to rest in Erzincan where she was born.Read More
Alaattin Ahmed, the sheikh of the Esyad El Heyayin tribe, commented on efforts to solve the crisis in North and East Syria, the Turkish state’s attacks, and the attitude of Arab countries towards the attacks.Read More
The Kurdish National Congress (KNK) co-chair Ehmed Qeremus, who promotes diplomacy to ease tension initiated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the Federal Kurdistan Region, stated that conflict must be avoided. “This situation will please the invaders”, he said. “The people of Başûr do not want war either”.Read More
As tensions have intensified after the Sinjar agreement was signed between the Iraq government and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Sinjar Democratic Autonomous Assembly (MXŞD) decided to hold an extraordinary meeting on 30 November to assess the most recent developments in the region.Read More
In another example of human rights violations in Afrin (Efrîn), northern Syria, Turkish-backed mercenaries kidnapped two civilians in the village of Anqelê in the Şiyê district, reports Hawar News.Read More
