Imprisoned former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality (DBB) Mayor Selçuk Mızraklı has said that the Turkish government’s trustee policy not only aims to remove alternative municipalism, but also targets the culture, language, and the history of Kurdish people.Read More
Turkey is intensifying its attacks on the Syrian town of Ain Issa, in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, according to a commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan It was a normal day for Payman, Kawa and their two children, working at their market in the Kuna Masy resort of South Kurdistan, Sulaymaniyah — when suddenly their shop was devastated by a Turkish bomb.Read More
Kurdish journalists in Turkey say that online death threats against them are increasing, and that no action is being taken against the anonymous social media accounts behind these messages.Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır Evaluating the significance of the peace politics that the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) advocates in Turkey, the HDP’s Diyarbakir MP Hişyar Özsoy explains: “To overcome this fascist government would end the hostage politics that is taking place with Europe, which is based on blackmail and threats. The HDP’s meaning and […]Read More
Sinjar’s Autonomous Administration Assembly has reacted to the recent Sinjar agreement signed by the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and clarified that it will not accept an agreement that excludes the wishes of the people of Sinjar.Read More
Peoples’ Democratic Party co-chair Mithat Sancar made a statement at a meeting held for the HDP’s eighth anniversary celebrations in Diyarbakır (Amed), Turkey. Several HDP deputies also attended the meeting.Read More
Çiçek Kobanê (Dozgin Temo) was captured and arrested by jihadist mercenaries during a military operation in Eyn İsa.Read More
Multiple journalists are on trial in Istanbul courts on what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called “baseless and harrassing charges”.Read More
A Council of Europe report by its Monitoring Committee, authored by co-rapporteurs Mr Thomas Hammarberg and Mr John Howell, has strongly condemned “the recent crackdown on political opposition and civil dissent in Turkey, which infringes the fundamental rights of local politicians and (former) members of parliament from the opposition, lawyers, journalists and civil society activists”.Read More
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