In Van, Diyarbakir, Mardin, Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş and Şırnak, families of People’s Defense Forces (HPG) guerrillas are treated inhumanely as they bury their dead.Read More
“My microphone was taken out of my hands. I came to my home and cried”, said Melek Mosso, a 32 year old singer in Turkey.Read More
The world learned about the stories of the ‘kolbars’ through Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi’s cult movie, ‘A Time for Drunken Horses‘. An Iranian (Kurdish/Persian) film produced in Iran, it was a co-winner of the Caméra d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian described it as “a very remarkable […]Read More
Meghan Bodette – USA In late August, the UN-sponsored Syrian Constitutional Committee (SCC) began a new round of meetings in Geneva. The 150-member committee, which was established in 2019, is tasked with creating a future constitution for Syria that all sides of the country’s decade-long civil war can agree to. Fifty of its members were […]Read More
Kars municipality has acted to assist women during the pandemic. Kars Municipality Co-mayor, Şevin Alaca, confirmed that violence against women has increased in the city, especially during the lockdown. She added that there is an intense demand from women for the municipal services of the Women’s Solidarity Centre.Read More
Zara Mohammadi is a 27 year old Kurdish teacher and a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) activist in Iran. She is from Sine, the capital of the Kurdistan region in the country. She is dedicated to teaching Kurdish to students who otherwise cannot learn Kurdish in schools.Read More
Translated from Gazete Duvar, Written by Kemal Can The government seems to have set another agenda by not talking about an upcoming election – even saying there is no such thing – but with every action it takes, it stimulates discussion over this. At the beginning of the year and just last year, holding an […]Read More
Translated from Yeni Yaşam. Author: Eren Keskin We are trapped, all of us … It is a process that none of us has experienced before …Read More
The ‘Covid-19 pandemic’ has remained a focus of attention to policy makers. The United Nations (UN) has just published a report evaluating the consequences of the pandemic on the tourism sector worldwide.Read More
Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) Central Executive Committee member, Duran Kalkan, commented on the Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee’s (CPT’s) report examining the prison isolation conditions of Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan. He stated that the significant struggles that have been carried out by Kurdish people have helped to bring attention to Ocalan’s situation.Read More
