“We are afraid another village massacre will happen”
by Fréderike Geerdink In a podcast interview with Medya News, the representative of the Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) in the...
Iraqi Shia leader Sadr calls provincial supporters off the streets
On Monday, Shia Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr called on his supporters in Iraq's provinces to return to their homes...
US press freedom organisation calls for immediate release of Kurdish journalists in KRG prisons
Iraqi Kurdish authorities should immediately and unconditionally release journalists Karzan Tariq and Chenar Ahmed and cease harassing members of the...
CPT has concerns for jailed Kurdish activists on hunger strike in KRG
Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) are concerned about the health conditions of the imprisoned Badinan Kurdish civil activists held at prisons...
KRI: Five-year Turkish bombardment forces locals to flee Bradost
Residents in Iraqi Kurdistan’s mountainous Bradost area in have said they are unable to move around their own villages due...
Turkey continues drone attacks against Iraqi Kurdistan
A Turkish drone struck a car and wounded at least one person on the highway in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, Rojnews...
Medya News Daily Review: 1 August 2022
A group of 102 French MPs have released a statement condemning Turkey’s planned incursion into North and East Syria. A...
Turkish university silences soprano over Kurdish songs
A university in Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin (Mêrdîn) has barred Kurdish soprano Pervin Chakar from performing in its concert...
Berçem from YPJ International speaks to Medya News
by Mark Campbell On 19 July it was the 10th anniversary of the Rojava revolution. So many political and social...
Turkish media blackout leaves Zakho massacre unreported
Turkish media organisations, including independent news outlets, chose to ignore the massacre in Iraq’s Zakho (Zaxo) district on 20 July,...
