This is what colonialism looks like – a weekly news review
High in the Kurdish mountains, in the modern state of Iraq, a battle is being fought that can impact the ...
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Women from Turkey protest ban on sale of sanitary pads
Following Turkey's full lockdown policy, the sale of products other than those related to "mandatory needs" is banned. The Ministry ...
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Emine Şenyaşar: They did not leave anyone to celebrate my Mother’s Day
Every year, the second Sunday of May is celebrated around the world as Mother's Day. However, when mothers are mentioned ...
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Kurdistan National Congress set to organise national conference
The coalition formed by exiled Kurdish politicians in Europe announced that they plan to organise a national congress. Kurdistan National ...
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Iraqi Kurdistan: UN delegation visits Sinjar
A delegation of the United Nations' Nineveh office held meetings with Autonomous Administration of Sinjar officials in Sinjar in Iraqi ...
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Iranian state targeting of Baloch and Kurdish political prisoners and border traders
Desmond Fernandes In this podcast, Desmond Fernandes and Faiz Baluch critically analyse the Iranian state’s target killings of Baloch ‘sookhtbar’ ...
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Raperin Munzur: ‘The guerilla defend Kurdistan and freedom against fascism’
Defining the current clashes in the Zap, Avashin and Metina regions in northern Iraq as the "resistance of the guerilla", ...
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A pair of socks and photos are all that remain of Nadire Elma
Mecbure Elma, who had been searching for her daughter for years, now hugs her daughter's pair of socks and longs ...
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Many mothers will not be ‘celebrating’ but ‘grieving’ on Mother’s Day in Turkey
For many mothers, Mother's Day will have a loss of 'celebratory' meaning as they confront the loss of their children ...
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Seriously ill prisoners in Turkey struggle to receive appropriate hospital treatment
The case of Devrim Ayık is instructive. Ayık is currently imprisoned in Eskişehir Type-H Closed Prison and suffers from Crohn's ...
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