Halabja chemical attack survivors suffer enduring physical, psychological effects 37 years on
Thirty-seven years have passed since Saddam Hussein ordered the Halabja (Helebçe)massacre on 16 March 1988, yet the scars of that...
Women light Newroz fire on Diyarbakır’s ancient walls, honouring Kurdish resistance
In a powerful act of remembrance and defiance, Kurdish women’s organisations led Diyarbakır (Amed)’s first Newroz fire of the year...
UN fact-finding report condemns Iran’s crackdown on ethnic, religious minorities, gender-based dissent
After two and a half years of collecting and verifying 38,000 testimonies and directly interviewing 285 victims of and witnesses...
Kurdish mayor Serra Bucak promotes women’s leadership at UN summit
Kurdish co-mayor Serra Bucak called for global solidarity in defending women’s political participation and leadership at the 69th session of...
Protests erupt as Al-Sharaa’s constitution fails to find favour with minorities
A draft constitutional declaration signed by Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Julani) on 13 March has been met with...
Afrin’s displaced residents prepare for return home under SDF-Damascus deal
Thousands of displaced people from Afrin (Efrîn), a Kurdish-majority region in northern Syria, are preparing to return home following an...
Podcast | Mahmoud Patel on parallels with the end of apartheid in South Africa
🎙️📹 #PODCAST | Medya News’s Erem Kansoy discusses the differences and similarities between the current moment in Turkey, and the...
Snakes and ladders of Syrian politics – last week in Kurdish news
Who could have predicted, four months ago, that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an offshoot of al-Qaeda, would take control in...
Nobel laureates demand immediate release of Narges Mohammadi, all Iran’s political prisoners
Eighty-five Nobel laureates have issued a joint statement demanding the unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi and all political prisoners in...
Paris-based Middle East expert highlights ‘denial’ at heart of Kurdish question
Prof. Dr. Hamit Bozarslan of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris has shed light on...
