People in Iraqi Kurdistan and North and East Syria have reacted to attacks by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), in cooperation with Turkey’s National Intelligence Organisation (MİT), on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) locations.Read More
by Fréderike Geerdink The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) camp where I was having tea with a few fighters was located on a route between two villages so locals passed through every now and then.Read More
Reactions continue against the Sinjar agreement signed between the Iraq government and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on 9 October.Read More
According to the Human Rights Association’s (İHD) latest report, 160 people were subjected to the imposition of agentification and kidnapping in the last 10 months in Turkey. İHD co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan called for putting an end to these kinds of torture methods. Regarding the recent cases of kidnapping and agentification, Türkdoğan said the state implemeted […]Read More
The Kurdistani Coalition has commented on the current agitation among Kurdish parties and called for dialogue: “It is time to ensure national unity, and to preserve and develop our achievements”.Read More
As the tension mounts between Kurdish political parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, a statement against war was made by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (YNK) politburo member Mehmûd Sengawî, who said “the decision for war was taken by Mesoud Barzani, not by the parliament of Federal Kurdistan”, and “we have stated that we are not in […]Read More
A court has fined a police officer 19,000 Turkish lira after he killed six-year-old Furkan Yıldırım and seven-year-old Muhammed Yıldırım with a police panzer while they were sleeping in their home.Read More
Amed Dicle The conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is progressing towards an armed clash. As both sides stoke disagreements on a daily basis, other Kurdish parties, and Kurdish people in general, are quietly concerned about the current situation.Read More
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Eren Baskın questions official narrative of Şerali Dereli’s death
Şerali Dereli, who lived in the village of Duranlar in Yüksekova district of Hakkari (Colemêrg) in Turkey, was killed by soldiers who were conducting an operation on 29 October.Read More
By Ateş Alpar We interviewed documentary filmmaker Selim Yıldız about his films Bîra Mi’têtin/I Remember (which focuses on the Roboski massacre) and Dialog/Dialogue. Yıldız also spoke about the current situation of Kurdish cinema, the role of documentary cinema in Turkey, film festivals, and the challenges of documentary film making.Read More
