World leaders have celebrated the victory of Joe Biden, after he won 290 electoral college votes to become the 46th president of the United States.Read More
As the tension mounts between Kurdish political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, a statement against war was made by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (YNK) politburo member Mehmûd Sengawî, who said “the decision for war was taken by Mesoud Barzani, not by the parliament of Federal Kurdistan”, and “we have stated that we are not in […]Read More
A court has fined a police officer 19,000 Turkish lira after he killed six-year-old Furkan Yıldırım and seven-year-old Muhammed Yıldırım with a police panzer while they were sleeping in their home.Read More
Amed Dicle The conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is progressing towards an armed clash. As both sides stoke disagreements on a daily basis, other Kurdish parties, and Kurdish people in general, are quietly concerned about the current situation.Read More
The Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) has released a report on the number of violations against journalists in October this year.Read More
Joe Biden has become the 46th president of the United States after winning 284 electoral college votes.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) declared a new Continuous Action Programme on 6 November.Read More
Şerali Dereli, who lived in the village of Duranlar in Yüksekova district of Hakkari (Colemêrg) in Turkey, was killed by soldiers who were conducting an operation on 29 October.Read More
Twenty five teachers who are members of the Education and Science Workers Union (Eğitim Sen) were detained in Diyarbakır (Amed) in Turkey on 6 November.Read More
By Ateş Alpar We interviewed documentary filmmaker Selim Yıldız about his films Bîra Mi’têtin/I Remember (which focuses on the Roboski massacre) and Dialog/Dialogue. Yıldız also spoke about the current situation of Kurdish cinema, the role of documentary cinema in Turkey, film festivals, and the challenges of documentary film making.Read More