Police raided houses of numerous activists and People’s Democratic Party (HDP) members in 15 districts of Istanbul, Turkey.Read More
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Executive Committee member Murat Karayılan issued a statement regarding the tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan with the Turkish state and the National Intelligence Organisation (MIT). Karayılan evaluated the efforts of the the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) and the Parliamentary Union of Kurdistan.Read More
Serpil Odabaşı Serpil Odabaşi considers the hardships faced by Um Hiba, one of 6,000 Yazidis who were captured by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). She is one of those who could be considered ‘lucky’ for she survived whilst thousands of others were brutally murdered.Read More
Within the scope of the“Stop Isolation, Fascism, Occupation; Time to Achieve Freedom” initiative that was announced by the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and the Kurdistan Communities of Women (KJK), a new campaign was launched in Italy as part of the international campaign to demand freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.Read More
The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey released a video on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. A key message was: “All over the world, women are resisting male violence and fascism; struggling to establish a democratic, just and equal society! We object to those who stole our lives […]Read More
Jinwar is a women’s-only village in Rojava, Syria. The construction works of the village were initiated on 10 March 2017 and it formally opened its doors to social life on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.Read More
The journalist Firmesk Ali has interpreted the deployment of Iraqi soldiers to Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan – under the scope of the agreement between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) – as “a new [order for] massacre”. He stated that “there are Turkmen groups amongst the soldiers being sent” according to Mesopotamia […]Read More
Medyanews Exclusive Prominent Kurdish author Ferda Çetin talked to MedyaNews about the controversies in Iraqi Kurdistan surrounding the Sinjar agreement that was signed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the discussions that have been taking place about Kurdish national unity.Read More
by Savan Abdalrahman – Iraqi, Kurdistan The Sulaymaniyah International Book Fair is taking place for the second time. Surprisingly, despite the widespread coronavirus pandemic in Iraqi Kurdistan, people have visited the library in droves to attend it, whilst using protection masks.Read More
Mehmet Ali Koçak, who lives in Siirt (Sêrt) in Turkey, reacted against the unlawful decision to bury his son Abdullah Koçak in the cemetery of the nameless before his DNA test results could be used to enable him to bury his son in the family’s cemetery.Read More
