The calendar of the ‘Defend Kurdistan’ demonstrations to be held 3rd July across Europe announced
The European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress (KCDK-E) has called for participants to join in the actions to be held on ...
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Kurdish villagers returning after the forcible depopulations of 90s face yet more repressive restrictions on their lives
The evacuation of villages and forced migration was intensified after the 1980 coup in Turkey and especially during 1990s when ...
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Turkey officially withdraws from the Istanbul Convention
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a 'midnight decree' in March seeking to withdraw Turkey from the Council of Europe's ...
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Christine Blower says Abdullah Öcalan is ‘central to resolution of Kurdish question in Turkey’
Medya Haber TV spoke to ex-General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) Christine Blower who is now Co-Convenor ...
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Turkey: Villagers in Şırnak complain of uninhabitable conditions due to coal mining activities
The number of coal mines and coal screening facilities in Toptepe (Avgamasya) village, located in Turkey's eastern city of Şırnak ...
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A ‘Goddess’ of the Kurdish freedom struggle: A tribute to Zeynep Kınacı
After Turkey's Military Intelligence Organisation (MİT) on 6 May 1996 attempted to assassinate the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah ...
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Banning HDP does more than disenfranchise Kurds
In several articles I have read after Turkey’s constitutional court accepted the indictment of the prosecutor to ban the HDP, ...
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Zikrî Zebarî: ‘Turkey should withdraw from the Kurdistan region’
Speaking on Tuesday at the Kurdistan Parliament, the elected chamber of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's ...
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Journalist Fréderike Geerdink acquitted of ‘making propaganda for a terrorist organisation’
Mark Campbell The Court of Cessation in Ankara, Turkey, has acquitted journalist and Medya News-columnist Fréderike Geerdink from 'making propaganda ...
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Low water levels in the Euphrates threaten public health in North East Syria
On 18 June, the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, Imran Riza, and the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for ...
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