Newly appointed US Special Envoy for Syria Mr Joel Rayburn held a press conference 3rd December to address the situation in the North and East of Syria. During the press conference the special envoy was asked by the Rojava Information Centre if the US had any mechanisms in place to deter a Turkish invasion of the […]Read More
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) General Commander Mazlum Abdi was interviewed on Ronahî TV and he commented on the current situation in Syria, the tensions that have arisen between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the future of Sinjar.Read More
Despite the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution, which calls on all parties of conflicts to take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape and other forms of sexual abuse, in situations of armed conflict, the women, whose lives have been turned into a living hell in Kurdistan have never […]Read More
In a letter addressed to Dr. Dindar Zebari, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG’s) International Advocacy Coordinator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), Amnesty International urgently called for a retrial of Abdulrahman Er, who has been sentenced to death. Amnesty International noted that his death sentence was questionably upheld by the Court of Appeal in […]Read More
Curfews and conflicts began in 2015 in the district of Sur in Diyarbakır (Amed) in Turkey. Hundreds of children, youth and women were injured and scores of people were killed in clashes during the curfew that was imposed on 2 December 2015 in six neighbourhoods in Sur.Read More
Turkey’s armed forces and its mercenaries are constantly attacking the M4 international highway which cuts through Syria’s most strategic areas and runs parallel with the border with Turkey. Civilians using the Tell Tamer-Zirgan stretch of the highway are worried about their safety because of these attacks, reports Hawar News.Read More
Economist Çeleng Ömer from Afrin (Efrîn) University has shared images of an olive processing facility in Afrin, in northern Syria, where olive oil is produced. He reports that the revenue from this olive oil production facility – amounting to as much as 100 million USD – has been spent on militant groups.Read More
Civilians who have been forcibly displaced in northeastern Syria as a consequence of the attacks by Turkish-backed mercenaries spoke to Hawar News Agency. They reported that the mercenaries had pillaged their villages and were refusing to let them re-enter them.Read More
“The Yezidis living on Mount Sinjar provide the last chance for Yezidi culture to survive. Humanity is bound not to let the occupation of Sinjar take place”, Zozan Sima concluded in her column for Yeni Özgür Politika, which assessed the significance of the preservation of the Yezidi culture in Sinjar.Read More
Twenty six years after the bombing of the offices of the Özgür Ülke (Free Country) newspaper in Istanbul and Ankara in Turkey, Zekine Türkeri, a former correspondent for the newspaper, shared her views about the way in which the oppressive targeting of the Kurdish media and the failure to address the Kurdish Question has led […]Read More
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