Speaking to Mesomotamia News Agency, Ayşe Acar Başaran, the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) MP for Batman in Turkey said: “The system in İmralı is political, so the struggle against it should be political”.Read More
The European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress (KCDK-E) Co-Presidency Council issued a statement calling for strong participation in its demonstration – to be held on 5 December – against the Sinjar agreement. “Everywhere is Sinjar, everywhere is resistance – in Europe, Canada, Australia and all over the world. We need to take action against the occupation […]Read More
Young activists from the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) marched in Diyarbakır (Amed) in south-eastern Turkey to express their solidarity with the hunger strikers in Turkish prisons. “A thousand greetings to the comrades who are resisting in the prisons”, they chanted whilst marching.Read More
German MP Martina Renner who has served in the German Bundestag representing Die Linke party since 2013 from the neighbouring state of Thuringia tweeted her delight at the legal victory overturning the ruling banning flags and symbols of the People’s Protection Units and Women’s Protection Units, YPG and YPJ, in the German state of Bavaria.Read More
The Iraqi government wanted to remove the security points in Sinjar on December 1st.Read More
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Mithat Sancar spoke at a caucus held in Turkey’s parliament.Read More
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KURDISH POLITICS
MIDDLE EAST
Kurdish politicians call on KDP and Iraqi Government to show
The KDP and Iraqi government must show respect for the Autonomous Administration of the Yazidi people and their defence forces established after the defeat of ISIS who invaded Şengal in 2015 forcing the population to flee.Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Repeated Turkish state aggression against Kurds in northern Syria and in other places has brought the Kurdish issue to the fore. In Egypt, Kurds have been part of society for a long time. There is a lack of clarity on the exact date the Kurds began settling in Egypt but […]Read More
Speaking for an exclusive Medya Haber TV broadcast, Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council member Mustafa Karasu shared his thoughts on the reform discourse of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) coalition government of Turkey.Read More
Aldar Xelîl, a member of the Democratic Union Party’s (PYD’s) Co-Presidency Council, shared his concerns regarding the latest developments in north-eastern Syria and in the wider region.Read More
