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 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 11th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art began on Saturday in Germany.Read More
by Desmond Fernandes Ali Çiftci owns Apec Press, which is a Kurdish publishing house based in Stockholm, Sweden. Apec has published over 300 books, including 70 Kurdish children’s books since 1988 and several texts focusing on Kurdish history and genocide. In 1992, acclaimed Swedish author Astrid Lindgren personally selected Apec to publish the Kurdish translation […]Read More
In reference to a reported attack against sixteen Kurdish hazelnut workers in Turkey, the Sakarya Governorate denied the nature of the incident, even as the workers stated that the gendarmerie had asked them for their location where they had been attacked.Read More
The influence of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) coalition on Turkish nationalists living in Europe has been profound. Attacks by nationalist Turks on Kurds and socialists took place on 27 and 28 June in Vienna. Organised attacks by ‘Grey Wolves’ (Bozkurt) in especially German speaking countries continue.Read More
Research carried out by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in forty-one countries, including Turkey, has revealed that many children in these countries experience poverty, a lack of education, obesity and mental-illness. More than one in ten young people, it found, were still not receiving an education or work experience in Turkey.Read More
Three people who attacked the Workers’ Party of Turkey’s (TİP’s) MP and deputy president, Barış Atay, were arrested on 2 September, after they finished their interviews with the authorities.Read More
Serhat – Rojava As several countries have decided to re-apply preventative and protective measures to face the anticipated ‘second wave’ of COVID-19, Rojava’s self-administration declared a new general quarantine since the beginning of August.Read More
Serhat – Rojava Ciwan Mustafa is the co-chair of the Health Department in northern and eastern Syria. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infection that reportedly can be diagnosed using a test called ‘polymerase chain reaction’ (PCR). Mustafa noted that 1,200 PCR tests have been conducted to date. Of those, 425 were found to be […]Read More
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