Educators in Turkey call for boycott over new education model
A teacher's union platform in Mersin, Turkey has urged educators, parents and students to join a boycott on 11 June...
Mob attack on dance event in Turkey’s southeast Diyarbakır raises fears of organised intolerance
An outdoor dance event organised by a private school of dance in the Kurdish-majority southeastern Diyarbakır (Amed) province of Turkey...
Turkish government’s trustee appointments align with ‘coup law’, says main opposition spox
Deniz Yücel, spokesperson for Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), condemned on Monday the use of "coup laws" for...
UN Security Council votes for Israel-Hamas ceasefire, as attacks on Gaza continue
The United Nations (UN) Security Council on Monday endorsed a ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip,...
Venezuela signs gold mining agreements with Turkey amid environmental concerns
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has formalised agreements on Saturday with Turkey to exploit gold resources in the environmentally sensitive Orinoco...
Research on women’s participation shows US must back AANES elections
The US should support the recently-postponed municipal elections set to be held by the Kurdish-led Democratic Autonomous Administration of North...
Pro-government newspaper accused of defamation to justify trustee appointments in Kurdish-led municipality
Amid a broader campaign to replace elected leaders in Kurdish-majority municipalities with government-appointed trustees, Diyarbakır (Amed) Metropolitan Municipality has filed...
Hundreds protest against arrest of Colemêrg’s co-mayor and appointment of state trustee
Hundreds of residents of Syria's Arab-majority Tebqa (al-Thawrah) organised a march to protest against the arrest of Hakkari (Colemêrg) co-Mayor...
UN urged to address prolonged isolation of Abdullah Öcalan in Turkish prison
Lawyers from Asrın Law Office, who act for the jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, have called on...
US theorist Bookchin inspires Öcalan’s grassroots eco-democracy, pioneered in Rojava
Abdullah Öcalan's model of democratic confederalism, with social ecology as a key principle, was inspired by Murray Bookchin’s political ideas,...
