There’s nothing mysterious about SDF fighters in a chopper
Fréderike Geerdink Last week, nine SDF fighters died in a helicopter crash close to Duhok in the Kurdistan Region in...
Let me dream about a HDP presidential candidate
Fréderike Geerdink Complicated times for HDP, now that it’s still unclear whether the party can participate in the elections on...
Tell me who they are, your murdered ones, your killers, your brave souls
Fréderike Geerdink Kemal Kurkut, Abdurrahman Gök, the Şenyaşar family, Ali Ismail Korkmaz and a murdered member of the Grey Wolves...
May our hearts shrivel if we forget
Fréderike Geerdink Should I write a column about both Roboski massacre, which happened eleven years ago on the day I...
Convention against chemical weapons demands a spine of the international community
Fréderike Geerdink New accusations have been made against the Turkish army for the use of banned weapons in the war...
Saying Jin, Jiyan, Azadî in Kurdish is not enough
Fréderike Geerdink The slogan ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’, ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’, is everywhere at the moment. Big and established media outlets...
Ax Kobani – the revolutionary battle on screen
Fréderike Geerdink Last night, KOBANÊ, the newest film of the Rojava Film Commune, had its premiere in Kobani. It must...
Justice will be done in Musa Anter’s case
by Fréderike Geerdink Within a week, it will be thirty years ago that Kurdish writer and intellectual Musa Anter was...
A Sakharov Prize for Kurdish women
by Fréderike Geerdink Semra Güzel has become the next in a long line of Kurdish women who have been jailed...
Tamils and Kurds, and the end of armed resistance
Frederike Geerdink It was interesting to welcome a member of the massive Tamil community to the podcast series I make...
