Öcalan’s letters reach key Kurdish political bodies
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan has confirmed that imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah ...
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Protests in Syria and Europe mark 26 years since Öcalan’s capture
Marking the 26th anniversary of the 1999 abduction of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, tens of thousands of Kurds, Armenians, Syriacs, ...
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Salih Muslim: If Turkey accepts to sit with Öcalan, they would give up attacking us
In an exclusive interview with Medya News correspondent Chris Den Hond, Democratic Union Party (PYD) executive member Salih Muslim ...
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A fragile flicker of light on a dark day – a weekly news review
Sarah Glynn Today, tens of thousands of Kurds from across Europe are marching through Strasbourg to demand Freedom for Abdullah ...
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Syria’s National Dialogue Committee excludes Kurds, reinforcing political divisions
On 13 February 2025, the Syrian National Dialogue Preparatory Committee—comprising five men and two women under the leadership of Ahmed ...
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Macron stresses SDF integration as key to Syria’s security and reconstruction
French President Emmanuel Macron used the closing session of an international conference on Syria's transition to underline the crucial role ...
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Syrian Kurds to participate in Munich Security Conference for first time
The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC), scheduled from 14 to 16 February 2025, will bring together world leaders, ministers, and ...
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Ten years after the battle for Kobani – an Australian perpective
Peter Boyle It was during the heroic and world-significant battle for Kobani (Kobanê) in 2014-2015 that together with the late ...
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Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Rojava vs. Turkey is much-needed first step
Sarah Glynn The judges of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal examining the responsibility of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and key ...
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Decentralised system best for new Syria, says AANES’s Ilham Ahmed
Ilham Ahmed, Foreign Relations co-chair for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, stressed the importance of a decentralised ...
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