Bahtiyar Fırat (33) is a bus driver from Hakkari (Colemêrg) in Turkey who has been missing since 14 October, soon after he was released from police custody in İstanbul Airport.Read More
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Concerns rise over the detention of Sherwan Sherwani in South
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan On 7 October, police forces attacked Sherwan Sherwani’s house in Sebrian, a village near Erbil in South Kurdistan. They arrested him in front of his wife and three children.Read More
The Peace Mothers Fatma Akbaş, Hadiye Oğur, Adalet Çay and Meyaser Korkmaz were detained after a house raid in the city of Şanlıurfa (Riha) in Turkey on 6 October.Read More
The border gates in Van (Wan) have been closed since March 2020. The gates were first closed due to the coronavirus restrictions. However, despite the normalisation process, Turkey has not yet re-opened the gates. With no visitors, tourism in the city is dying.Read More
Yazidi (Êzidî) Journalist Eyüp Burç declares that the “Sinjar deal” between Baghdad and Hewlêr, which was signed on 9 October, was “to send a message to the Kurds. The operation against Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî started on the same date last year and led to new massacres”.Read More
Thirty-six-year-old Muhammed Helef Süleyman lost his life while tending his sheep in Tell Abyad (Girê Spî). His sheep were grazing around the M-4 railroad when he was shot by soldiers. Süleyman was wounded in the chest by a bullet and taken to Martyr Ömer Elûş Hospital, where he died. Eyewitnesses claim that Süleyman was targeted […]Read More
When spring arrives, Kurdish people begin to prepare for winter. Foods obtained from various places throughout the year are processed for consumption during the colder months.Read More
The court has ruled for the continued detention of former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, after a review of their arrests.Read More
Garzan Cemetery, which is located in the Yukarı Ölek (Oleka Jor) village of Bitlis city in Eastern Turkey, included the graves of 282 Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members. The cemetery was destroyed by construction vehicles, and the bodies were removed from their graves without informing the families. On 19 December 2017 the mortal remains were […]Read More
The Mesopotamia Language and Cultural Research Association (MED-DER) has launched the application process for online Kurdish language courses.Read More
