Jeen Peres Turkish military and affiliated armed opposition groups kidnapped and arrested 71 people, including 10 women and a child, in the Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin in the month of November.Read More
Savan Abdalrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan For three days in a row, last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, protests took place in the Sulaymaniyah province of Iraqi Kurdistan. The protests were organised by teachers whose salaries were to be cut by 21% by the authorities due to the economic crisis. Soon, hundreds of teachers and ordinary people […]Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo History runs as quick as a flash inside Seydê Rachid Dîkê’s mind. A native of the northern Syrian city of Afrin in his early sixties, Dîkê remembers the times he spent in Afrin and other parts of Syria before he settled permanently in Egypt.Read More
Jeen Peres – Syria A Belgian delegation visited officials of the Autonomous Administration in Qamishli, northeastern Syria, on Friday, to discuss issues related to the region, including the problem of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) members who were detained.Read More
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Medyanews Exclusive The concept of terrorism is often discussed on the international community’s political agenda yet it is highly controversial and has a big problem with a common definition of the term. In this context, the main issue in defining terrorism is based on interpretation. (1) The relationship between self-determination and terrorism is a controversial […]Read More
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Former YPJ fighter Eddi Marcucci faces further criminalisation in Italy
Medyanews – News Desk Maria Edgarda Marcucci, the Italian activist and former Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) fighter, awaits sentencing from the Turin Court. Her trial relates to the “special surveillance” measures she has been subjected to since last March and a determination will be made as to whether these measures will apply over the next […]Read More
by Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Repeated Turkish state aggression against Kurds in northern Syria and in other places has brought the Kurdish issue to the fore. In Egypt, Kurds have been part of society for a long time. There is a lack of clarity on the exact date the Kurds began settling in Egypt but […]Read More
Medyanews Exclusive The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has been engaged in armed struggle since 1984 (initially seeking independence, later autonomy as well as greater political and cultural rights for Kurds) in the Republic of Turkey.Read More
by Uğur Deniz – İstanbul Populist presidents – many of whom are racist and xenophobic and who rise through corruption – are all over the world. How do we confront this monism? The co-chair system is a remedy. The co-chair system, which does not mean sharing seats or dividing power, predicts a fair change from […]Read More
Hani al-Gamal – Cairo The coronavirus is taking a heavy toll everywhere in the world, including in Egypt where it has reportedly killed over 6,000 people so far. Nonetheless, the pandemic is opening the door for the emergence of new professions, ones that had never existed before.Read More
