“A Difficult Year in Turkey”? You’re tellin’ me…
International Observatory of Human Rights have added to the long list of the country’s human rights violations in their recent 2018 in Review: Human Rights Violations in Turkey
“We have work to do”. ‘Only in Rojava’, for the people of Rojava
Irish poet Séamas Carraher once more puts into words, the feelings and emotions difficult to express with the articulated sound
PACE calls on Turkey to release Leyla Güven
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) met on Monday and Tuesday in Strasbourg
The theory and practice of the Kurdish Women’s Movement: an interview in Diyarbakir
One of the undisputed achievements of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and Syria is the advancement of women in social, economic, and political domains of life
Swiss MP says Turkey selling looted Syrian olive oil to fund militia
Swiss lawmaker Bernhard Guhl has informed authorities that Turkey could be exporting olive oil plundered in Syria in its military op there, but then being labelled as Turkish
One Year on From Afrin, and now East of the Euphrates: More War?
“The goal of the United States from delaying this agreement is to make room for Turkey to enter easily when the US withdraw from its military bases...” (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)
Terrorism policing: the YPG/YPJ, an ally abroad but a danger at home?
The erratic treatment members of the YPG/YPJ receive at the hands of Europe’s counterterrorism networks doesn’t look set to change in the near future
Ankara’s only goal in Syria is exterminating Kurds
Attacking Rojava means the end of Turkish-Kurdish peace chances
Sinn Fein MEP calls for international action for Leyla Guven
Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson has called for international action in support of Kurdish politician Leyla Guven who is currently on hunger strike and is now in critical condition
WHY WON’T TURKEY TALK PEACE WITH THE KURDS?
Is there not something absurd (if not for the cost in human suffering) in Turkey’s ruling coalition’s deep seated venom for the social and cultural presence of this not-Turkish people?
