A Kurdish activist from Eastern Kurdistan has been on hunger strike since Jan 3. Hajar Piri, 33 from Kurdish city of Naqadeh has been jailed for more than eight months in Tabriz prison. According to...
Cizre – The Turkish Army announced the death of 291 Kurdish fighters of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) during military operations in northern Syria. The death toll, declared by Turkey on 7 January 2017, included...
According to data, Iranian central government plan to build 33 new dams on Eastern Kurdistan water reservoirs. These dams plan to retain more than 330 billions cubic meter of water. However in the same time,...
According to Kurdish website, Beiji refinery equipments are taken by Iranian military militia force in Iraqi Kurdistan under chaotic circumstances of Iraqi government. Iran accuses the government of Iraq of support for terrorists and it...
The beginning of 2017 is shaping up to be a critical period in the Syrian Kurds’ campaign to defeat Islamic State and secure a measure of political autonomy in their homeland. How President-elect Trump manages...
Since July 2015, the Turkish authorities have waged a campaign against the population of southeastern Turkey, imposing a succession of 24-hour sieges, known as curfews, which have blocked access to health care – including emergency...
Since the July 15 failed coup, about 1,500 NGOs have been closed. Some NGOs were accused of being affiliated with the Fethullah Gulen movement, which the government believes was behind the coup attempt, and others...
Architect Daniel Libeskind and journalist Gwynne Roberts have been worked with the Kurdish regional government to build a new museum on historic Kurdish suffering and their pain. This musuem will be located in the city of Erbil,...
The Kurdish Institute of Istanbul (Enstituya Kurdi ya Stenbol), co-founded amongst others by Musa Anter and Ismail Besikci, has been shut down with the framework of martial decrees. https://www.evrensel.net/haber/302980/turkiyeyi-kurtaracak-olan-demokrasidir...
Framing the ongoing operations in ethnic terms instead of identifying Turkey’s target, the PKK terrorist organization, is a misconstrued interpretation, especially when it was the PKK that terminated the peace process in July 2015. Source...