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The ‘Ya Star’ of the Kurds, Sakine Cansiz
Post Views: 24 There is a lot to be said about Sakine Cansiz. However, what is more important is to understand Sakine Cansiz’s fight, to expand it, to struggle the way she did, to reject the male-dominated world, to resist,
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In memory of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
On 9 January 2021 is the eighth anniversary of the brutal assassination in Paris of Sakine, Fidan and Leyla, three prominent Kurdish women political activists
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Prisoners in Turkish jails on hunger strike against isolation of Öcalan
On 27 November political prisoners in Turkish jails went on hunger strike demanding the end of the isolation imposed on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan and the ongoing violations in prisons.
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Foza Yûsif: ENKS imposes unacceptable demands
Post Views: 90 PYD Co-Presidency Council member Foza Yûsif said that there is a deadlock in the talks on unity in Rojava, and added that the ENKS “violated the red lines” and “imposed unacceptable demands” by standing with the murderers
Read MoreThe book by YPJ commander Meryem Kobanê: A dream destroying borders 0
The first volume of the book of Meryem Kobanê, one of the commanders of the historical Kobanê war and victory, about those days, “Kobanê: Çepera Rûmetê” was published by Şilêr Publications
Read MoreHow Syria’s Afrin became hell for Kurds 0
Afrin was once in a Kurdish majority region where women had more rights than elsewhere in Syria, a patriarchal country in a bloodthirsty war
Read MoreWorld Kobanê Day and the revolution in Rojava 0
On 1st November 2014, millions of people around the world took to the streets to express their solidarity with the heroic resistance of Kobanê
Read MoreFreedom for Ocalan! Peace for Kurdistan! 0
The campaign “End Isolation, Fascism and Occupation – Time for Freedom” was launched on 12 September. The Kurds have now declared that 10 October will be a global Freedom for Ocalan Day.
Read MoreAn interview with YPG/YPJ commander Meryem Kobane, on the anniversary of the Rojava Revolution – PART ONE 0
On the occasion of the 8th Year of the Rojava Revolution, we spoke with Meryem Kobane, one of the YPG/YPJ commanders who not only defended Kobane in 2015, inflicting a heavy defeat to ISIS, but who is also a leading figure in the Rojava Revolution
Read More3 August must be recognized as the “International Day of Action Against Femicide and Genocide” 0
This week marks the 6th anniversary of the August 3, 2014 massacre in Iraq’s Sinjar region of the Yazidi community by the so-called Islamic State as they swept into northern Iraq in 2014
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