by Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Saywan Hill in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, is a graveyard where lone women who were drowned, killed, and heartbroken lie.Read More
MedyaNews Exclusive Heja Netirk had been trained and educated in traditional Kurdish music and conducted research into dengbej’s (traditional Kurdish singers). She learned to play the guitar whilst imprisoned for nine months in Turkey.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – South Kurdistan After nearly one hour of driving, we arrived at Hawraman, Byara. Mr Poet, who we spoke to on the phone and who was to be our guide, told us, “Just come through the Byara entrance and you will find me wearing a Faranji”.Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan On 26 October, people in the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan woke up to see women’s dresses hanging on a long line stretching almost 5km long. Some could see it from their house windows, some through the windows of their cars as they drove along and many others came […]Read More
Medyanews Exclusive Global military spending has been gradually rising, notes the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). According to the Department for International Trade (DIT), Britain is second in the global rankings for international arms sales, behind the United States.Read More
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Residents voice concerns over the Bağlar urban renewal project in
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Poor neighbourhoods in Turkey have often been criminalized and ghettoized. When it comes to Kurdish cities, this marginalization becomes even more extreme, and ‘urban renewal’ can and often does have devastating consequences on the poorest residents.Read More
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Urban renewal in Diyarbakır: A tool for gentrification and assimilation?
Eylül Deniz Yaşar – Diyarbakır (Amed) Successive urban renewal projects in Diyarbakır’s (Amed’s) two strategic districts, Sur and Bağlar, might be designed to achieve hidden objectives of the Turkish state. These are the sentiments expressed by a number of urban specialists and residents, who suspect that under the discourse of ‘modernization’ and ‘economic revival’, there […]Read More
by Seda Taşkın Turkey’s Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announced that medical staff in both public and private institutions will not be allowed to quit their jobs during the coronavirus outbreak. It was also stated that retirement procedures will not take effect during this period as well. The only exceptions are for those who are forced […]Read More
Seda Taşkın The People’s Democratic Party (HDP) won 65 municipalities during the elections held on 31 March 2018. Trustees were appointed to 48 of those 65 municipalities. There remained only six HDP municipalities that do not have trustees. We talked about the co-chair system with Semire Nergiz, co-Mayor of Nusaybin (Nisêbîn), to whose position a […]Read More
Savan Abdulrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Polat Can’s latest book, In Criticism of the Eastern Mind, has been published by the Xazalnus publishing house and bookstore in south Kurdistan.Read More
