Translated from Yeni Özgür Politika Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi met the Sinjar delegation and listened to their demands. The delegation presented him with a request/solution statement that addressed 18 concerns and demands. Kadhimi stated that the agreement with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) will be revised. He indicated that two parts of the agreement […]Read More
GOG, the first Kurdish comic book for children, is being prepared for publication.Read More
The occupying Turkish army, alongside mercenary forces, has intensified bombardments in Girê Spi and the surrounding area this month, with heavy shelling in the villages of Bir Khatik, Abdak, Qazali, Arida, Kour Hassan and Saleeb.Read More
In the Kemal Kurkut trial in Turkey, the defendant police officer Y.Ş. faces a sentence of three to nine years in prison for “deliberately causing death by negligence”. The 12th hearing, where a decision is expected to be made, will be held on 17 November in Diyarbakır (Amed) 7th High Criminal Court.Read More
This year is the 83rd anniversary of the Dersim Massacre, which was carried out by the Turkish state in 1937 and 1938 in the Tunceli (Dersim) province of eastern Turkey. Seyit Rıza, who led the uprising against the Turkish state, was executed on 15 November 1937.Read More
Sahar Ali Translated from Yeni Yaşam Newspaper August 2014 represents a loss of life for all Yazidi women. Like many of my relatives and friends, I was captured after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) attacked Sinjar. I remember the night we were taken from Sinjar to Mosul.Read More
Two workers from Maxmur refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, Mahîr Sêrtî and Eşref Korhan, were imprisoned by the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) Asayish security organisation on 25 September whilst on their way to work.Read More
Gülcan Dereli Translated from the Yeni Yaşam Newsletter Vedat Aydın was born in 1953 in the Bismil district of Diyarbakır (Amed) in Kazancı (Gundê Heciyê Kurmanca). He grew up in Kazancı and during his primary school education he attended a different school in a different village every year. His secondary school was in Bismil.Read More
Looting, heavy taxes and the seizing of property have led to a bad olive harvest for the second year in a row in Afrin Canton, Syria.Read More
Citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan have reacted against the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s deployment of its armed forces in regions where Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) forces are located, and condemned the KDP’s cooperation with the Turkish government.Read More
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