Dear Selahattin, dear Gültan, dear Sebahat, dear Selma, dear revolutionaries…
It is apparently a crime now to call you dear. A procedure against your fellow HDP MP Garo Paylan, to...
Europe’s silence will ricochet right back, with bloody consequences
It is called a "slip of the tongue", the way in which retired general İsmail Hakkı Pekin, former head of...
For the Fascist State of Turkey, No Lives Matter
It was in the police station in Yüksekova, early September 2015. A group of some thirty civilians and one journalist...
Mazlum Kobane shows political will against all odds
Fréderike Geerdink The unity talks between the Democratic Union Party (PYD)/ Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Kurdistan National Council...
A tribute to Ayşe Gökkan and the Kurdish women’s movement
Fréderike Geerdink This week, Ayşe Gökkan, women’s rights activist extraordinaire, has been jailed for the 84th time. There are some...
Only the struggle can bring justice to Roboski
Fréderike Geerdink Nine years ago today, 34 boys and men were murdered by the Turkish state in what we know...
Damn Turkey, the culprit. Damn the European Court, the accomplice
by Fréderike Geerdink As expected, yesterday afternoon the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered...
How much longer can the Kurdistan Government in Iraq be this weak?
by Fréderike Geerdink At least eight deaths already in the protests against partially paid and delays in unpaid salaries, unemployment,...
In its 43rd year, it’s still not the PKK that should lay down its arms
by Fréderike Geerdink The gangs of Daesh were a few hundred metres away from the military base of the PKK...
Want to get rid of the Grey Wolves? Here’s what to do
Fréderike Geerdink After France, my own country the Netherlands has also taken the first steps to ban the Grey Wolves....
