Nadira Dermuş from Afrin in north east Syria was reportedly kidnapped by Turkish-backed Sultan Murad mercenaries on the orders of the Turkish intelligence service MIT. She was murdered and her body was found near the location of the mercenaries.Read More
As part of the “End Isolation, Fascism, Occupation: Time to Ensure Freedom” campaign, initiated by the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and the Kurdistan Communities of Women (KJK), a “Freedom for Öcalan” banner was flown across the sky in Australia.Read More
Fréderike Geerdink Nine years ago today, 34 boys and men were murdered by the Turkish state in what we know now as the Roboski massacre. I happened to have investigated this massacre throughly, wrote a book about it and I know for a fact that the mass murder was a deliberate act.Read More
Nine years has passed since the Roboski (Uludere) massacre. 34 people, including 19 children, were murdered by the Turkish state’s fighter jets. The ones who witnessed the incident have had their lives shaped with sorrow as a result of that incident.Read More
In the Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria, hundreds of people have marched to condemn Turkey’s attacks and to affirm their support for the resistance of the SDF in the west of Tel Abyad (Grê Sipî), as well as in the towns of Tel Rifat (Tıl Rıfat) and Manbij (Minbic).Read More
Serda Demir As in various parts of northern Kurdistan in Turkey, a great resistance for self-government took place in the district of Sur in Diyarbakir (Amed) in Turkey in 2015. ‘Ji Bo Azadiyê -The End Will Be Spectacular’, directed by Ersin Çelik and made by the Rojava Film Commune, is a film about this historical […]Read More
Jeen Peres – Syria The struggles and sacrifices of women have played a major role in the development of humanity in all fields. However, reactionary culture and political tyranny have prevented the recognition of women’s efforts and their natural role in society.Read More
On 28 December 2011, thirty four villagers, nineteen of them children, lost their lives as a result of being bombed by warplanes of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) near the village of Roboski in Şırnak (Şırnex), Uludere district.Read More
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) whose special forces attacked three guerrillas between Kanê and Dêreshê villages in Iraqi Kurdistan on 13 December, want to construct a permanent checkpoint in the same area as the attack according to reports.Read More
International campaigns have been launched to end the prison isolation conditions in Turkey of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. After 21 years of isolation at İmralı, prisoners in Turkey have also recently initiated a hunger strike to demand an end to Öcalan’s isolation. Erdoğan Alayumat, a journalist from Mesopotamia Agency (MA), has assessed aspects of this […]Read More