Blockade hampers fight against coronavirus in Makhmur camp
MedyaNews Exclusive by Fréderike Geerdink There are twenty one cases of Covid-19 at present in Makhmur camp, the refugee camp...
Repeating old mistakes in Şengal won’t break the chain
Fréderike Geerdink In the spring of 2017, amid rising tensions between several armed groups in the Şengal region of Northwestern...
The eternal respect Kurdish media deserve – and get from nobody
Fréderike Geerdink On the morning of 3 December 1994, Yakut Yılmaz let himself down onto the red tiled pavement, right...
Another film to resist the mentality of destruction
Fréderike Geerdink The Rojava Film Commune is working on a new feature film. It will be about the Turkish invasion...
It’s not relevant what Barzani and Erdoğan discussed, and here’s why
Fréderike Geerdink Kurdistan Region President Neçhirvan Barzani visited Ankara. I couldn’t help but think of Ottoman times, when Kurdish clan...
Erdem: “If France wants an exit strategy”
Selahattin Erdem's report from Yeni Özgür Politika It isn't exactly clear how the Macron administration in France will oppose the...
KRI’s press freedom situation: “Pitch-black as Iraq’s”
Fréderike Geerdink There are at least five journalists presently detained in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). In Duhok, the...
The more education western leftists get in Kurdistan, the more dangerous they become
Fréderike Geerdink What I remember most vividly about the young German woman I met in a PKK-camp in the Qandil...