Fréderike Geerdink There are at least five journalists presently detained in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). In Duhok, the offices of TV-station NRT have been shut by the authorities after they had been raided and their equipment seized and a law suit was opened against them. Why? Because they reported on the civil unrest […]Read More
Rojhat Kevok – ROJAVA The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has been placed in an impossible situation by different political actors and powers. Nowhere is this more evident than with regard to the hotly-contested question of the autonomous regions’ oil reserves.Read More
Meghan Bodette – USA In late August, the UN-sponsored Syrian Constitutional Committee (SCC) began a new round of meetings in Geneva. The 150-member committee, which was established in 2019, is tasked with creating a future constitution for Syria that all sides of the country’s decade-long civil war can agree to. Fifty of its members were […]Read More
Translated from Yeni Yaşam. Author: Eren Keskin We are trapped, all of us … It is a process that none of us has experienced before …Read More
In a recent ‘Opinion’ piece for The Guardian, Simon Tisdall cautioned that “Turkey’s aggression towards its rivals and allies alike is posing a threat to regional stability, yet nobody is prepared to act”.Read More
Words by Meghan Bodette On August 15th, 1984, the PKK launched its first attacks against Turkish state targets, in Eruh and Şemdinli. The operation marked the beginning of a struggle for Kurdish self-determination in Turkey and the broader region that has lasted to this day. While many governments categorise the Kurdish freedom movement’s activities as […]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
Gültan Kışanak Gültan Kışanak is a political prisoner, a journalist, and a former MP and co-mayor of Amed/Diyarbakir. With fellow political prisoners, she wrote a book ‘The Colour Purple of Kurdish Politics’, which looks at the role of women within political parties.Read More
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