Ferda Çetin – Translated from Yeni Özgür Politika As tensions have risen in recent months in Iraqi Kurdistan between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), it would seem that KDP forces are preparing for war. The KDP’s military forces have occupied the strategically significant Zînê Wêrte region, continued with troop […]Read More
Translated from Yeni Özgür Politika İmralı is the prototype of a solitary confinement and torture system. Held in solitary confinement for 21 years at İmralı Prison in Turkey, Abdullah Öcalan has indicated that the İmralı system itself is “three-legged”. It had its origins “in the US, in Europe and in Turkey and is a system […]Read More
by Doğan Çetin Translated from ANF Firat News Agency Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), was killed in an operation that was based upon joint intelligence gathering between the US and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on 26 October last year. He was killed in […]Read More
by Ertuğrul Kürkçü American people have stopped the march of fascism to power in the United States. This is a great gain not only for the American people but also for all progressive movements across the globe.Read More
Selahattin Erdem Translated from Yeni Özgür Politika In discussing the topic regarding “relations between national unity and democracy” – an issue which I examined in my previous article – I arrived at the conclusion that national unity requires peace, which means a ceasefire, and that peace can only be possible under conditions of democracy. This […]Read More
by Fréderike Geerdink The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) camp where I was having tea with a few fighters was located on a route between two villages so locals passed through every now and then.Read More
By Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Egypt and France recently held joint naval drills off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. The drills, in which different units of the two countries’ navies participated, came at a time Cairo and Paris moved ahead with coordination in the East Mediterranean.Read More
Translated from Gazete Karınca by Ercan Sezgin The history of the Kurds is in a sense the history of resistance. Kurds have been resisting the state system for 5,000 years and the nation-state system for 500 years. They resisted but never won, were defeated but never finished. The only reason why the Kurds have survived […]Read More
By Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have held a new round of negotiations on Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam, following weeks of suspension.Read More
Walaa Abostit – Cairo Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow, along with a host of other Russian Foreign Ministry officials.Read More
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