Australian Kurdish activist Çiğdem Aslan must be freed
Peter Boyle Australian Kurdish activist, Çiğdem (Lenna) Aslan was about to board a flight at Istanbul airport to return to...
Systemic failures force Turkey’s farmers into poverty: DEM Party pledges action
Tülay Hatimoğulları, co-chair of Turkey's pro-Kurdish People's Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party, visited seasonal farm workers of Adana in the...
Turkish crackdown on Kurdish language institutes intensifies
The number of people detained in the ongoing police investigation into Kurdish language and cultural institutions in Turkey's Diyarbakır (Amed)...
Musa Anter Awards honour journalists exposing truth: Free press will not be silenced!
The 31st annual Musa Anter and Martyrs of Free Press Journalism Awards were presented at a ceremony held at the...
Solitary confinement: a weapon of mental destruction in Turkish prisons
Zeki Bayhan, a political prisoner who has been incarcerated for 27 years in Turkey, has penned a powerful and deeply...
Frankfurt’s Kurdish festival: Thousands call for Öcalan’s release, unite in cultural resistance
Thousands gathered in Frankfurt on 21 September for the 32nd International Kurdish Culture Festival, where Kurdish artists and political figures...
At least 52 miners perish in Iran’s deadliest mining disaster
A catastrophic explosion at the Ma’danjui coal mine in Tabas in Iran's South Khorasan province has resulted in the deaths...
Kurdish language roadmarkings blacked out in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Elazığ
On the night of 22 September, unknown persons vandalised Kurdish and Turkish language road markings, which had been painted by...
Women from Africa and Europe discuss the global impact of Öcalan and the Jin Jiyan Azadî movement
Four women spoke to Medya News reporter Erem Kansoy on the anniversary of the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini, a...
Musa Anter helped shake my foundations
Fréderike Geerdink It is 32 years ago that Kurdish intellectual Musa Anter was murdered by the Turkish deep state. His...
