European Commission vice-president Margaritis Schinas has said that the European Union (EU) will discuss the details of medium and long term sanctions against Turkey, after condemning its unlawful explorations in the Eastern Meditteranean.Read More
The Union of Public Sector Employees’ (UNISON’s) Falkirk Branch Chair Margaret Cook and UNISON Women’s Network Chair Pat Heron spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika about the work of women’s trade unionists in the United Kingdom and their project of women’s solidarity with Kurdish women activists against misogyny in Turkey. Heron also stated: “We should also […]Read More
German MP Martina Renner who has served in the German Bundestag representing Die Linke party since 2013 from the neighbouring state of Thuringia tweeted her delight at the legal victory overturning the ruling banning flags and symbols of the People’s Protection Units and Women’s Protection Units, YPG and YPJ, in the German state of Bavaria.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
Award winning international journalist Patrick Cockburn writing in The Independent labeled Donald Trump’s ‘green lighting’ of Turkey’s invasion and occupation of the Kurdish city of Afrin as one of the worst crimes of Donald Trumps presidency. Cockburn who has traveled and reported from Afrin in 2018 and 2019 wrote: “It was the worst crime of Donald […]Read More
The Turkish ambassador to Austria, Ozan Ceyhun, has denied Kurdish-Austrian politician Berivan Aslan’s origins in an interview.Read More
Danish intellectuals and politicians have appealed to Kurdish parties to end tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan, writing a letter emphasising their concerns and calling on parties to prevent a possible war among Kurds.Read More
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Coalition against ISIS will not pull troops from northeastern Syria
A press conference set up between the Global Coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Rimelan (northeastern Syria) to discuss the latest combat strategies against the Islamic State (ISIS) was held on Tuesday.Read More
A Ministry of Cultures, Decolonization and De-patriarchalization has been established in Bolivia. The government has stated that the aim of the Ministry is to “decolonize and de-patriarchalize and reverse the inequality between nationalities, as well as between men and women”.Read More
The ‘Freedom for Öcalan Signature Campaign’ initiated by intellectuals and academics from Europe continues. Activists from all around the world have expressed their solidarity with the campaign. The latest expressions of support demanding the freedom of Öcalan and ther Kurds came from Egypt, Bolivia and Argentina.Read More
