by Fréderike Geerdink The gangs of Daesh were a few hundred metres away from the military base of the PKK at the frontline near Kirkuk. That fact didn’t distract the fighters that evening. Some were slaughtering a sheep that had been brought in from a base closer to the city, others were sitting on the […]Read More
Akın Olgun Kurds are once again being tested in every sense and in every field in Turkey. A circle of fire is being lit around them. As they overcome traps set up for them to deny their freedom, new ones are laid.Read More
Shawn Hattingh The sight of people marching and undertaking protests to occupy land has become common under the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa.Read More
Serpil Odabaşı Serpil Odabaşi considers the hardships faced by Um Hiba, one of 6,000 Yazidis who were captured by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). She is one of those who could be considered ‘lucky’ for she survived whilst thousands of others were brutally murdered.Read More
Sarah Glynn – Scotland In 2014, the world watched in horror as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) surrounded and attacked the Yazidi homeland in Șengal (Sinjar in Arabic), in northern Iraq, close to the border with Syria.Read More
by Nilüfer Koç Since the beginning of 2020, the Kurdish people have been concerned by the threat of intra-Kurdish conflict. This began in spring with the deployment of military forces affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to Zini Werte and continued with the deployment of KDP forces to other regions of South Kurdistan where […]Read More
by Nuran Imir, the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP’s) MP for Şırnak (Şirnex), Turkey The Botan region of Turkey, which has a strong culture of resistance as a result of the impact of the significant Kurdish political movement that developed there during the 1990s, has been targeted by repressive forces ever since.Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Egyptian health authorities are taking a series of measures to cope with a surge in the number of Covid-19 infections registered around the nation, amid fears of a second wave of the disease.Read More
Fréderike Geerdink After France, my own country the Netherlands has also taken the first steps to ban the Grey Wolves. And as much as I hate the Grey Wolves, banning them makes no sense whatsoever. Not only because it is for very good reasons – you know, the freedom of association, rooted in constitutions and […]Read More
by Desmond Fernandes During a recent visit to the region, Nadine Maenza, the Vice-Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), on 31 October and 5 November (two days after the US elections) called for the political recognition of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava.Read More
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