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“Helicopter torture” of two Kurdish villagers in Van: Servet Turgut died!
On 11 September 2020, Turkish soldiers detained two villagers in Catak District of Van, namely, Mr Servet Turgut (55), father of 7 children, and Mr Osman Şiban (50), father of 8 children
Read MorePeace in Kurdistan condemns the attack on the HDP 0
Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for 82 people, including former mayors and MPs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Party’s current Central Executive Board
Read More“What we are facing in Rojava is a door in to the future” – Video Interview 0
In this video, Séamas Carraher, a Global Rights writer and an Irish poet is interviewed by journalist Erem Kansoy with support from the Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and the Freedom for Ocalan Campaign
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The Struggle for Kobanê – A Future for Kurds?
This week in September marks the 6th (since September 2014) anniversary of the Islamic State/Daesh’s advance on and siege of the Kurdish city of Kobanê
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
Read MoreLet us stand by Şiar Rişvanoğlu under threat! 0
Attorney Şiar Rişvanoğlu is being threatened with death for not mincing his words in the courtroom, protecting all the rights of his clients
Read MoreInterview with Hawzhin Azeez about Kurdish responses to COVID-19 in Rojava and Rojhelat 0
Dr. Jeff Miley interviews Dr. Hawzhim Azeez of the Center for Gender and Development Studies at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani about Kurdish responses to COVID-19 in the Kurdish region of Syria as well as the Kurdish region of Iran
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Turkish crimes against women in occupied Afrin documented
A new dossier issued by Kurdish women’s organisations has documented incidents of violence against women carried out by Turkish soldiers and jihadist groups
Read MoreComuna de Cine de Rojava: “El papel del artista es mostrar la belleza del proceso revolucionario” 0
Desde 2012 un grupo de cineastas kurdas del Norte de Síria desarrolla la Comuna de Cine de Rojava, una institución popular para la producción y proyección de arte cinematográfico revolucionario en el territorio
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