A ‘Writers of the Future’ competition has been organised by the Cizre Region Culture and Arts Committee and the Rojava Literature Committee. Sixty children are participating in the competition.Read More
Fifty photographers from all around the world collaborated with fifty prisoners in Turkey to create an exhibition called “Voice of Freedom”.Read More
Kurdish actor Erdal Ayna has been working in a construction job for the past couple of months due to lockdowns in Turkey. He could not even get paid for projects he was involved in due to the pandemic, since the cinemas were shut down and plays were canceled.Read More
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
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
The Raqqa Museum is one of many cultural and historic sites that were targeted during the war in Syria. Established in 1861 under Ottoman rule, the site was used as a military base by occupying French forces, and was converted into a museum in the 1980s. Around 8,900 historical artifacts were displayed there.Read More
Şehmus Yas, aged 65, who lives in the city of Van (Wan) in eastern Turkey, sings klams (a Kurdish folk singing style) on the streets.Read More
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
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
