When French economist Thomas Piketty published his book ‘Capital in the 21st Century’ in 2013, it made an overwhelming impression across the world and sparked several debates about modern capitalism and inequality.Read More
Ankara’s conflict with Athens over hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean will be discussed in the European Council meeting at the end of this month.Read More
Walaa Abostit – Cairo CAIRO – Representatives from fifteen Arab and African states will attend an Arab-African Unity Council Forum in Cairo, Egypt, this month. Non-Government Organisations (NGO’s) will also be attending the event. The role of Turkey in destabilizing the region will form the focus of discussions.Read More
The President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Robert Spano, made a key speech at the Justice Academy of Turkey. Spano was visiting Turkey for the first time and made a presentation at the ’24th Term Training of Prospective Judges and Prosecutors’ session. The title of his speech was “Judicial Independence – The […]Read More
The author, academic and activist David Graeber has died, aged 59. “I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such. I see anarchism as something you do, not an identity, so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist”, he noted. His wife, the artist and writer Nika Dubrovsky, announced on Twitter that Graeber had died in […]Read More
One of the largest technology companies in the world, Microsoft, will now translate in the Kurdish and Sorani dialects of Kurdish.Read More
Two Êzîdî Kurds are standing as candidates in municipal elections in Herford, Germany. Erdal Ekinci and Nazım Acar said that their priority is to increase Kurdish lessons in schools in the city where five thousand Kurds live.Read More
Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana and Texas in the United States of America (USA). Eight thousand homes were reportedly destroyed as 400,000 people were additionally left without power and 200,000 lost their water supply. The death toll from Hurricane Laura has reached sixteen, reported Associated Press. Carbon monoxide poisoning arising as a result of the unsafe […]Read More
Around 38,000 people took to the streets of Berlin in Germany on 29 August to protest against the government’s Covid-19 ‘containment and health’ measures.Read More
As tensions have arisen in recent weeks over conflicting hydrocarbon claims of ownership between Greece and Turkey in the Mediterranean, NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, on 26 August urged restraint and called for dialogue between the two states during a meeting of European Union Defense Ministers.Read More
