Hewrin Xelef was a Kurdish-Syrian politician and served as the Secretary General of the Future Syria Party after working for many years in Rojava in northern Syria. Xelef was killed on 12 October in northern Syria when the Turkish state launched a military operation in the region.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) Culture and Art Commission commemorated the 13th anniversary of Kurdish writer Mehmed Uzun’s death.Read More
Enver Ünlü, the trustee placed in control of Iğdır (Îdır) municipality in Turkey, has dismissed nine workers and civil servants in the municipality and special provincial administration on the grounds that they are under investigation.Read More
Abdullah Öcalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), who remains imprisoned under isolation conditions in İmralı High Security F-Type Closed Prison in Turkey, has been banned from making calls for six months. Other prisoners held in the same prison – Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş – have also had these […]Read More
The Iraq government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have issued statements confirming that they have reached agreement on Sinjar. However, Sinjar’s Autonomous Administration Assembly has reacted to these statements and clarified that it will not accept an agreement that excludes the wishes of the people of Sinjar.Read More
The trailer for Elif Yigit’s new documentary called “Heskîf” has just been released. The documentary focuses on the historic settlement of Hasankeyf and its destruction by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River in southeastern Turkey.Read More
As threats continue to be made against the existence of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), also known as Rojava, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi issued a statement, calling on the Syrian government to act responsibly.Read More
Mesopotamia Agency reporters Adnan Bilen and Cemil Uğur, alongside JinNews reporter Şehriban Abi and journalist Nazan Sala were arrested on the grounds that they had reported that Osman Şiban and Servet Turgut had been detained and thrown from a military helicopter by soldiers on 11 September in Çatak district in the city of Van (Wan) […]Read More
Despite opposition from local villagers, a hydroelectric power plant project was approved and built at a point along the Zorava stream in 2015 in the district of Siirt (Sert) in Turkey. Five years later, a new hydroelectric power plant project is planned – just seven to eight kilometers away from the previous one. Zorava stream […]Read More
Seda Taşkın Deniz Özer is a 25 year-old comedic actor performing in Kurdish, who has over half a million followers on social media. Özer spoke to Seda Taşkın about how and why he started acting and what he did before taking up the profession.Read More
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