Antonik Bedros’ family escaped from the Armenian genocide in 1915 and settled in Northern Syria (Rojava). Pottery is his profession and he has been making pottery ever since he was 12 years old.Read More
The Kurdish-language play “Bêrû: Klakson, Borîzan û Birt” was included in the October programme of the İstanbul Municipality City Theatre. Due to be staged by Teatra Jiyana Nû (New Life Theatre), it was banned on the grounds that it could “disturb the general public order”.Read More
Sinjar, where Yazidis live, is a district in the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq (Southern Kurdistan). Sinjar was attacked by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in August 2014. Although the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had announced that its peshmerga forces would protect the Yazidis living there, the peshmerga withdrew from the […]Read More
Hani al-Gamal-Cairo Delegations representing the Tripoli-based Supreme State Council and the eastern Libya parliament have started a series of meetings in Egyptian capital Cairo to discuss the rules that will regulate an aspired transition in Libya.Read More
The 12th October will mark one year since Hevrin Xelef, one of the founders of the Syrian Future Party and then Secretary General of the Future Syria party, was murdered when the Turkish state launched a military operation in northern Syria.Read More
Women living close to nature are in the position of producing, not consuming, and those living in the Divriği district of Sivas (Sewaz) prepare for winter by planting in the summer.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) Culture and Art Commission commemorated the 13th anniversary of Kurdish writer Mehmed Uzun’s death.Read More
The trailer for Elif Yigit’s new documentary called “Heskîf” has just been released. The documentary focuses on the historic settlement of Hasankeyf and its destruction by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey.Read More
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Police block 10 October commemoration of the 2015 ISIS suicide
Two Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suicide bombers had consecutively attacked ‘Labour-Peace-Democracy’ march in front of Ankara’s train station on 10 October 2015 in Turkey. Over one hundred people were killed and over five hundred were injured as a result of the attacks. Following the suicide attacks, the police had attacked people as […]Read More
İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court in Turkey has declared exiled journalist Can Dündar a fugitive and ruled for the seizure of his assets. The court had ordered Dündar on 17 September to declare himself and turn up within 15 days. Dündar lives in Germany and did not attend the court. After the period expired, the […]Read More
