Savan Abdalrahman – Iraqi Kurdistan Amir and Zana are two experienced millers in Kurdistan who earn their living in an old gristmill. The gristmill is one of the traditional ways of making flour out of wheat and grain. Few people in Kurdistan are aware of the existence of the gristmill that they work in.Read More
Ramazan Işık, father of Veysi Miran Işık – who is on a hunger strike demanding an end to the prison isolation conditions of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and an end to human rights violations in Turkey’s prisons – told Mesopotamia Agency (MA) that an end to the isolation conditions would pave the way for democracy […]Read More
Clashes continue around the town of Ain Issa in north east Syria. In recent weeks, fighting has intensified with Turkish-backed militias carrying out military assaults targeting Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The clashes have forced thousands of civilians in Ain Issa to flee.Read More
Dylan Hasan – Beirut Lebanon was formed with different minorities living within its borders. Sizeable minorities are mainly defined by their religious beliefs whilst some are defined by their ethnicity. Many Kurds migrated to Lebanon between 1925 and 1945 and then during the post-Second World War period from 1945 to the early 1960’s.Read More
After a 6.2-magnitute earthquake hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, at least 34 people were killed and hundreds more injured.Read More
The International Office of the the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, released a statement as a response to the Damascus government’s accusations that blamed the AANES and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of moving along with the external powers, Hawar News Agency reports.Read More
Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Film director Ali Badrakhan is committed to the Kurdish cause and uses cinema in an inspirational context.Read More
22 citizens were taken into custody under the allegation “helping the organisation” during house raids in the rural Xelîla (Kılavuz) neigbourhod of Dargeçit district of Mardin (Merdin) on January 11.Read More
Speaking to Hawar News Agency, the Kurdish people living in the northeastern Syria called upon the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to halt the military shipment it employs in the North and East Syria.Read More
The MPs of Peoples’ Democratic Party held a press conference today at the Turkish Assembly, highlighting the ongoing hunger strikes launched by mostly Kurdish political prisoners 50 days ago to demand the isolation imposed upon the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan be lifted.Read More