Arezou Badri in critical condition after being shot by Iranian police for not wearing hijab

Women in Iran continue to face severe violence from police forces for not adhering to the mandatory hijab. Arezou Badri,...

Human Rights Watch has raised concerns about the increasing criminalisation and repression of Kurdish cultural practices in Turkey. In an...

Stephen Smellie, a prominent Scottish trade unionist and a member of the Unison National Executive Council, is a key advocate...

Krüger begins by tracing the roots of the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) armed campaign, which started on August 15, 1984,...

The Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an international monitoring group, have released a new report detailing the civilian casualties in the...

In response to the death sentences of Kurdish and Iranian women activists Pakhshan Azizi and Sharifah Mohammadi, amid ongoing repression...

Forty years ago, on 15 August 1984, the Kurdistan Liberation Movement began its armed struggle against Turkish policies of assimilation...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the armed conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the...

Matt Broomfield Turkey has just suffered what’s being reported by Turkish media as Turkey’s “first neo-Nazi inspired attack”, in which...

Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) executive committee member Murat Karayılan, in a recent interview with Stêrk TV, marked the 40th anniversary...

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