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by Ateş Alpar Fırat Sözeri is a translator, researcher, and writer who works on ‘Russian-Kurdish relations’ and the history of the Caucasian Kurds. Fırat has also translated many books, poems, and articles from Russian to Kurdish and Turkish, including the ‘1918 Soviet Constitution’ and Maksim Gorki’s novel, ‘The Mother’.Read More
Ender Zaman – Istanbul Two years after the establishment of the Reinforcement Ready Forces Directorate in Turkey’s capital Ankara, the President’s decision to establish another Reinforcement Ready Forces Directorate in Istanbul, directly tied to the central administration, sparks further worries regarding the increase of human rights violations that have been already escalating. Lawyer Rengin Ergül, […]Read More
by Savan Abdulrahman Researchers, writers, and academics from South Kurdistan announced a campaign for Abdullah Öcalan to be freed; and their slogan is: “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan is the guarantee of peace and stability”.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman Graveyards in the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) administered region has been transferred to a private company to manage. Management services include tasks such as washing the dead, burying them, and providing general services and decoration of the graves. Since this privatized change, however, people in the KRG have had to pay substantial […]Read More
by Seda Taşkın The ‘normalisation’ process, launched on 1 June, has led to a reported increase of Covid-19 cases in several cities in Turkey. As emergency services have reached full-capacity in several cities, many patients have died whilst waiting to be treated and allocated hospital beds. The latest situation in the cities of Diyarbakır, Van, […]Read More
Hani al-Gamal CAIRO – Political developments in the Eastern Mediterranean region have been gathering pace since Egypt, Greece and Cyprus formed an alliance to counter the expansion of Turkish influence, after Turkey signed a series of economic deals and memos with the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA). Military confrontation is now possible in the […]Read More
Mohamed Abdullah and Fatma Sayed CAIRO – The coronavirus is reportedly spreading quickly in areas controlled by the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) in Libya. This raises questions about the role Turkey might be playing in these areas. Some people are accusing Ankara of staging biological warfare against the Libyan people by allowing Syrian […]Read More
Eylül Deniz Yaşar Not all actors able to stay at their ‘luxury’ homes, striving artists remind ANKARA – As screens and stages everywhere have been hit hard by the corona virus lockdown, the lack of state funding and support—which has already crippled the art industry in Turkey— has doubled the strength of the blow, Kurdish […]Read More
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Connections between the Turkish state’s ‘security policies’ in Kurdistan and
Words by Uğur Deniz The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has noted in its most recent report that forest fires can often become “a crisis that is out of control”. In the Kurdish provinces of Turkey, many forest fires appear to have reached this stage of “crisis”. We spoke to Agit Özdemir of the Mesopotomia […]Read More
