Cross-border trader shot dead by Iranian guards
Iranian border guards shot and killed 29-year-old Arkan Balvaseh, a kolbar (cross-border trader) as he was crossing between Iran and ...
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Kurdish former mayor Mukaddes Kubilay released from Turkish prison
Mukaddes Kubilay, former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) mayor of Doğubeyazıt (Bazîd) and co-mayor of Ağrı (Agirî), has been released from ...
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Burhan Sönmez: ‘the Kurdish language is my home’
Award-winning novelist and PEN International President Burhan Sönmez has just published his first novel in his native Kurmanji Kurdish, joining ...
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Kurdish wounds reopened as prominent US Republican signs name on Rafah-bound missiles
Nikki Haley, a well-known Republican and US diplomat, signed her name on missiles headed from Israel to Rafah, together with ...
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Veteran Kurdish journalist in custody in Netherlands awaiting extradition proceedings
Kurdish journalist Serdar Karakoç has been remanded in custody in the Netherlands awaiting extradition proceedings after being arrested at his ...
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Kurd under threat of extradition to Turkey reaches day 100 of hunger strike
Ecevit Piroğlu, a Kurdish political activist under threat of extradition from Serbia to Turkey, has reached day 100 of a ...
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