PUK Executive Şanaz Îbrahîm Ehmed: ‘All parties should be against an intra-Kurdish war’
The Defend Kurdistan Initiative, an international initiative that was launched this June and which aims to immediately halt the Turkish ...
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Six activists of the Defend Kurdistan peace initiative are detained in Germany
Activists of Defend Kurdistan peace initiative who arrived in Frankfurt airport on their return from Iraqi Kurdistan today, 23rd June ...
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Indictment aimed at HDP’s closure cites ‘speeches’ and events MPs attended as evidence
On Monday 21 June, Turkey’s Constitutional Court accepted an indictment seeking the closure of the pro-Kurdish opposition party, the Peoples' ...
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Prison hunger strike day 209 in Turkey: Mothers voice demands of their children behind bars
Hunger strike action launched by Kurdish political prisoners on 27 November 2020 continues to its 209th day throughout prisons in ...
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Out in the streets to protest against the HDP closure attempt: First rally in Izmir
The news that the indictment calling for the closure of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) had been accepted by the ...
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Prisoners from Afrin: A real life Midnight Express story of torture and lawlessness in Turkey
After Turkey's Afrin operation launched on 20 January 2018 eleven civilians from Afrin were detained by the members of the ...
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HDP MPs: ‘They believe they can save their future by closing down HDP, but they are wrong’
A chief prosecutor refiled an indictment seeking the closure of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which is also the ...
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Duran Kalkan: Turkey wants the ‘full support of all NATO forces against the PKK’
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) Executive Committee member Duran Kalkan was interviewed in a special programme that was broadcast on ...
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Defend Kurdistan Delegates: ‘With the excuse of the PKK, Turkey keeps on bombing civilian regions’
Desmond Fernandes & Mark Campbell The Defend Kurdistan Initiative is an international delegation for peace, consisting of journalists, feminists, politicians, ...
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Rock legend Roger Waters calls on Erdoğan to release Kurdish musician Nûdem Durak
At a ceremony sponsored by the Turkish Ministry of Culture, 77-year-old singer and bassist Roger Waters, founder of the band ...
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