Events and demonstrations for Abdullah Öcalan held in 36 cities across three continents
10 October marked the final actions a series of a series of global days of action for the freedom Abdullah ...
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Some thoughts on the young Yazidi woman rescued from Gaza
Fréderike Geerdink Ten years after the Yazidi Genocide, still from time to time news emerges that a girl or ...
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The PKK’s deeper analysis of Israel’s murders
Fréderike Geerdink The impact that the murder by Israel of Hezbullah General Commander Hassan Nasrallah will have across the region, ...
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Musa Anter helped shake my foundations
Fréderike Geerdink It is 32 years ago that Kurdish intellectual Musa Anter was murdered by the Turkish deep state. His ...
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Turkey’s expanding occupations should be the story media want
Fréderike Geerdink A couple of years ago, a foreign colleague of mine who was a correspondent in Turkey too, ...
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Gülistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn were living up to journalism’s promise
Fréderike Geerdink Gülistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn were bombed to death by the Turkish army. The two journalists were on ...
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Forty years of life over death
Fréderike Geerdink 15 August, that’s a day of celebration in the PKK. When I was in a language camp in ...
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Kurdish language traffic warnings confirm Kurds exist (and the state can’t bear it)
By Frederike Geerdink The Turkish police in Kurdistan are very busy these days painting over traffic warnings on the ...
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Medya News panel: Turkish invasion risks ‘new civil war’ in Iraqi Kurdistan
An expert panel hosted by Medya News has assessed the humanitarian, political and security outcomes of Turkey’s ongoing military operations ...
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Commemorating Suruç is striving to fulfil their dreams
Fréderike Geerdink Struggle is nothing without imagination. I thought of that when I saw pictures and speeches this weekend of ...
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