The water supply in Rojava, including El-Hol Camp and Heseke in north-eastern Syria, was interrupted because Turkey took over the Elok drinking water pumping station.Read More
Unmanned ‘Medium Altitude Long Endurance’ combat aerial vehicles (SIHA) produced by the friends and family companies of president Erdoğan have been supported by many western countries. They have also assisted Turkey in the production process of the SIHA drones.Read More
In Van, Diyarbakir, Mardin, Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş and Şırnak, families of People’s Defense Forces (HPG) guerrillas are treated inhumanely as they bury their dead.Read More
Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) Central Executive Committee member, Duran Kalkan, commented on the Council of Europe’s anti-torture Committee’s (CPT’s) report examining the prison isolation conditions of Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan. He stated that the significant struggles that have been carried out by Kurdish people have helped to bring attention to Ocalan’s situation.Read More
Mithat Sancar, the Peoples’s Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) co-chair, attended a public meeting in the Bodrum district of Muğla, a city in Turkey.Read More
The Co-Chair of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council has released a statement regarding the attacks that recently took place in the South Kurdistan (Başur) region of Iraq.Read More
An explosion, affecting the Arab Gas Pipeline between the northeastern Damascus suburbs of Adra and al-dhamir, has disrupted electricity supplies throughout Syria, Syrian state media reported. The Arab Gas Pipeline extends from Egypt into Jordan and Syria.Read More
According to the Anha News, Egyptian journalist and writer Fethi Mahmud has called for an international campaign to release Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan. Öcalan must be released, he notes, in order to establish peace in the Middle East.Read More
Ayhan Bilgen, who has spent many years in politics and has been working hard as co-mayor of the municipality, is an intellectual. We asked him about the municipality’s cooperation with NGO’s and how the success of HDP municipalities in local areas affect municipal government.Read More
Despite the widespread dismissal of HDP mayors and their replacement by government appointed trustees, Kars Municipality – still under the co-chairmanship of Ayhan Bilgen and Şevin Alaca – is carrying out important activities on such issues as nourishment, cooperatives, and women’s rights.Read More
