Seda Taşkın The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) won 65 municipalities during the elections held on 31 March 2018. Trustees were appointed to 48 of those 65 municipalities. There remained only six HDP municipalities that do not have trustees. We talked about the co-chair system with Semire Nergiz, co-Mayor of Nusaybin (Nisêbîn), to whose position a […]Read More
The drone war continues even as Canada has suspended the sale of military drone technology to Turkey over allegations that the technology is being used in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia.Read More
An art project has been launched to draw attention to violence against women in the city of Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan.Read More
Canada has suspended the sale of military drone technology to Turkey over allegations that the technology is being used in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Rotax company stopped sales of technology used in unmanned combat aerial vehicles to Bayraktar Company in Turkey.Read More
The Swedish Immigration Supreme Court rejected the asylum application of LGBTI activist and Kurdish refugee Ferhat İnam, who requested political asylum in Sweden three years ago, deciding that İnam “should leave the country in two weeks”.Read More
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Executive Committee member Murat Karayılan spoke to Sterk TV about the need for Kurdish groups to avoid conflict and in-fighting.Read More
The Turkish state-backed Syrian Turkmen Brigades (Samarkand) kidnapped seven civilians on Sunday in the villages of Kefer, Sefera, and Goran, in the town of Jindirês in Afrin (Efrîn), northern Syria.Read More
Whilst tensions have continued to increase between Turkey and France regarding the murder of a French teacher, there have been protests against France in Turkey and in Turkish controlled regions in Syria.Read More
Kurdish artist Tara Mamedova has claimed that a Kazakh group attacked a Kurdish village in the Dergachi district of Saratova, Russia.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Hawraman, a mountainous region in the provinces of Kurdistan, is located within Kurdistan and Kermanshah in western Iran and in the north-eastern Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Sometimes, the region is pronounced as Avroman.Read More