The book ‘Berferin’, which includes the latest poetry of Renas Jiyan, a prolific and an important author of Kurdish literature, has just been released.Read More
The Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) Young Women’s Council organised a workshop to “Take Action!” against harassment, rape and violence towards women.Read More
The first Ordinary Congress of the Anatolian Association for Aid and Solidarity with Families who lost their Relatives (ANYAKAY-DER) was held. Halit Batan and Sultani Yağmekan were elected as co-chairs at the congress. Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair, Leyla Güven, said: “Our work will not stop until Öcalan is free, the prisons are emptied and […]Read More
We talked to Ayhan Bilgen, Kars Municipality Co-mayor and former Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) spokesperson about the activities of Kars Municipality. Seda Taşkın Kars Municipality is one of the first municipalities that comes to mind when we talk about examplary municipalism in Turkey. Can you comment? Before the election, we roughly knew what kind of […]Read More
Savan Abdalrahman – South Kurdistan On Monday Which marks the 10th of August, Xazalnus publishing house and bookstore in south Kurdistan published a book that holds 11 years of Political, financial and social Documents and efforts that political figures in Rojava declared and announced for so long in order to achieve an autonomous Administration.Read More
After yet another “trustee” was appointed to a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) municipality, the HDP released a report on the replacement of its mayors with ministry-appointed “trustees” in the Kurdish majority eastern and southeastern provinces of Turkey.Read More
The Jinen Tirejen Roje Initiative has stated that it has carried out several targeted actions to protest against the isolation conditions of the Kurdish Movement’s leader, Abdullah Öcalan, and political prisoners in İstanbul in Turkey.Read More
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The Kurdish Language Movement: ‘Without language, a person’s identity is
Ferhat Yaşar (Translated from Gazeteduvar) Beginning with the slogan, ‘Every Kurd is naturally a member of the Kurdish Language Movement’, Hareketa Zimanê Kurdî (Kurdish Language Movement), or HezKurd, will take a position outside of politics, voicing demands for Kurdish language through democratic channels, without ideology or violence. Barış Celali, one of the leaders of the […]Read More
Fréderike Geerdink What I remember most vividly about the young German woman I met in a PKK-camp in the Qandil mountains where we both spent the summer of 2016, was her intelligence. She identified herself as an anarchist and struggled with her dedication to the cause of real self-determination for the people. She had gotten […]Read More
