There won’t be a Rutte Road or Merkel Square in Kurdistan
It is thirty years ago this month that the first foundations were laid for the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. After...
Turkey’s signature under the Istanbul Convention was a mistake to begin with
Fréderike Geerdink The resistance against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention to combat violence against women continues, both inside Turkey...
A tribute to Kadri Yıldırım, and Kurdish mothers
Fréderike Geerdink Professor and former HDP MP Kadri Yıldırım has passed away. It is hard to think of anybody who...
Abdullah Öcalan will leave that prison cell one day
Fréderike Geerdink Yet again we are in the middle of a wave of assorted condemnations of assorted ways in which...
Shutting down the HDP won’t kill the female spark
Turkish TV has a way of talking about the closure of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) as if it already...
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...
