Hawraman is a mountainous region located within the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah in western Iran and in the north-eastern Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The region has immense natural and historical value: valleys, springs, rivers and historical artifacts.Read More
The Kurdish seasonal workers who were attacked in Sakarya were placed under quarantine for seven days on the grounds of Covid-19 preventative health measures needing to be taken. This quarantine measure was imposed upon them before the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and Kurdistani alliance could visit them.Read More
The lawyer Sezai Akın announced that his client, Mehmet Sait Yardımcı, was tortured in custody. Yardımcı is being held by Urfa’s Anti-Terror Branch (TEM) in Turkey.Read More
A history book being used in French high schools includes a section describing the history of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Democratic Union Party (PYD).Read More
Portrait of a ‘dangerous Kurdish director’ Yılmaz Güney was a Kurdish director, novelist, scenarist and actor. He was born in 1937 in Yenice county of Adana province of Turkey. His parents migrated from Kurdistan to Adana to work as cotton field labourers. Güney studied law and economics at university but dropped out and started working […]Read More
The 11th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art began on Saturday in Germany. Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan’s graphic novel about torture, suffering and solidarity of women in Turkish prisons is one of the exhibits.Read More
The number of lawsuits against Esenyurt Municipality – filed for debts still owed during the previous Justice and Development Party (AKP) governance period – has risen to 400.Read More
by Isiyan Kamo – Rojava Since 2016, Zaningeha Rojava (Rojava University) has been developing a higher education alternative to the State’s universities under the Baath regime in Syria.Read More
Elections for Hong Kong’s Legislature were controversially postponed for a year in Hong Kong. Originally scheduled to have taken place on Sunday, authorities announced that the delay was happening due to the pandemic. Critics, however, claimed that the government was scared of the election results, had they taken place on 6 September. Demonstrators took to […]Read More
Rivers and lakes support biodiversity and ecosystems. Lake Sıhke in Van, Turkey, is ‘at risk’ due to global warming and pollution. The pollution caused by lack of adequate treatment for sewage and other urban waste is severely impacting the wildlife and the lake’s ecosystem.Read More
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