Theatrical actor Deniz Tüzün lives in the city of Batman in Turkey. Tüzün’s municipal theatre group had been closed down by the Turkish government appointed trustee to Batman Municipality in 2016.Read More
Forest fires erupted in Mount Gabar, beside the town of Dergul in Şırnak (Şirnex) province in Turkey.Read More
Non-governmental organisations in Turkey and Europe, including environmental and ecological NGO’s – alongside political parties, artists, writers, intellectuals, associations, trade unions and human rights defenders – called for the withdrawal of a proposed Landscape Design Project in Munzur Gözeleri in Dersim, Turkey. ”We cannot allow such an intervention”, they stated.Read More
The funeral of Kurdish construction worker Özkan Tokay, who has lost his life due to a gun assault in Afyon, took place yesterday in the Erciş district of the city of Van (Wan) in Turkey.Read More
A car bomb exploded in the centre of Efrin, close to a bus station. An explosives-laden small truck detonated in Kawa Square.Read More
The Kurdish filmmaker Rojda Şekersöz has announced that her next film project is “Thirty-three bullets”, inspired and named after a famous poem by Ahmet Arif. Arif’s poem, Professor Martin van Bruinessen notes, “refers to the summary execution by soldiers, in 1943, of thirty-two Kurdish villagers for alleged brigandage. A military court posthumously declared the villagers […]Read More
Pakistan Bilen, the Peoples Assembly co-chair, said there were concerns, on the one hand, over the Covid-19 outbreak and on the other, the attacks in Makhmur which has been under an embargo for fourteen months. Makhmur is located in Iraq.Read More
by Ateş Alpar Fırat Sözeri is a translator, researcher, and writer who works on ‘Russian-Kurdish relations’ and the history of the Caucasian Kurds. Fırat has also translated many books, poems, and articles from Russian to Kurdish and Turkish, including the ‘1918 Soviet Constitution’ and Maksim Gorki’s novel, ‘The Mother’.Read More
Hacer Yiğit makes a living by baking large thin flatbreads, thanks to the stove she installed in the front of her house. Yiğit lives in Yafes street of Cizre district in the city of Şırnak (Şirnex) in Turkey. Though townspeople consume mostly village bread, she bakes large thin flatbreads with the stove she installed in […]Read More
The people dealing with tobacco cultivation in the Kızıltepe (Qoser) district of Mardin (Mêrdin) in Turkey lack support.Read More
