The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government has implemented war policies to address the Kurdish issue, ever since it pulled out of the peace negotiations with the Kurds (which took place between 2014 – 2015).Read More
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s Foreign Minister, issued the following statement at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis in Switzerland.Read More
The dollar rate has been steadily increasing for the past five years. The Dollar/Turkish Lira (TL) parity was only 1.90 in 2013. This Friday morning, it reached 7.38 for the first time ever, crossing the psychological threshold.Read More
This March, a team of dedicated volunteers was getting ready to launch the 11th London Kurdish Film Festival, scheduled for the following month. Venues had been booked and hotel accommodation arranged, when, as with every other gathering and performance, lockdown brought all plans to an abrupt stop. No-one should dismiss the horror of this pandemic, […]Read More
“They are threatening me”, Private Osman Özçalımlı told his father by phone on the first day of Eid al-Adha. Stationed at İzmir Aliağa High Security Prison, doing his short-term military service, he was found dead the next day after this conversation.Read More
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder and leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has been held in İmralı F High-Security Prison since 1999. He has been kept in isolation for years, serving aggravated life imprisonment.Read More
Located within the borders of Southern Kurdistan, in the south of Duhok and where Yazidis (also often referred to as Êzidîs) live, Sinjar is a district of the city of Mosul. This place is the gateway to both Rojava (Til-Koçer) and Duhok-Zaxo.Read More
Generation Z is a commonly used term that refers to the generation that was born between the years 1995 and 2010. The significance of this generation cannot be overstated when it comes to the next general election. Some analysts contend that one out of every five potential voters at that time will have come from […]Read More
“If we speak Kurdish they will fire us”, said an employee in Cizre Park Shopping Centre to a customer, when asked about why he was not responding in Kurdish.Read More
