Podcast: STUC’s Stephen Smellie on the campaign to free Öcalan
Stephen Smellie, a prominent Scottish trade unionist and a member of the Unison National Executive Council, is a key advocate ...
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PKK’s armed struggle for Kurdish independence: A look into a forty-year conflict
Krüger begins by tracing the roots of the Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) armed campaign, which started on August 15, 1984, ...
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New data on casualties caused by Turkish and Iranian attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan
The Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an international monitoring group, have released a new report detailing the civilian casualties in the ...
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KNK marks 40th anniversary of Kurdish armed struggle as ‘historic turning point’
Forty years ago, on 15 August 1984, the Kurdistan Liberation Movement began its armed struggle against Turkish policies of assimilation ...
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The ‘first bullet’ against colonisation: Sinan Önal discusses the importance of 15 August to the ‘wretched of the world’
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the armed conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the ...
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Neo-Nazi stabbing: far-right ideology finds fertile soil in Turkey
Matt Broomfield Turkey has just suffered what’s being reported by Turkish media as Turkey’s “first neo-Nazi inspired attack”, in which ...
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‘An offensive against genocidal politics’: Karayılan marks 40 years since PKK launched insurgency
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) executive committee member Murat Karayılan, in a recent interview with Stêrk TV, marked the 40th anniversary ...
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A turning point in the fight against ISIS: 8th anniversary of Manbij’s liberation
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the liberation of Manbij (Minbic), a pivotal city in the Democratic Federation of North ...
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Daily News : 14 August 2024
14/08/2024 – #DailyNews – #MedyaNews 📍 Iran’s Vice President, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has announced his resignation, stepping down from ...
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Öcalan: Forgotten Kurdish Mandela in 40th year of Turkey-PKK conflict
An article by Italian journalist Benedetta Argentieri* for The Post Internazionale, translated and condensed for MedyaNews, provides a comprehensive overview ...
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