Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan employed two tactics. First, he set the mood for municipal polls as that of a general election, transforming the ballot into a confidence vote for his government. He managed to channel the vote he had mustered in the 2011 general...
Morteza Rahmani was convicted by a court in the western city of Sanandaj, which also sentenced him to three years imprisonment. Mr Rahmani was arrested by agents of Ministry of Intelligence and Security in 2012 for working with a Kurdish group. He was then subjected...
“Rojava”, as the Kurds call the part of their nation under Syrian administration, two months ago declared itself to be a sovereign, autonomous territory. Made up of three cantons of Kobani, Cizîre and Efrîn, Western Kurdistan is now the pilot...
The aim of this brutal military campaign on Kobani is (1) to divide the Cantons in Western Kurdistan (Rojava), since Kobani enjoys a geo-strategic location in the region, and (2) to undermine this unique pattern of democracy (cantons) that could be followed in Syria...
Armenians and Kurds urge the international community:Stop the Al Qaida terror against minorities in Syria !By Brussels, 25 March 2014 – Ararat News (ANP) – Al Qaida supported fanatic organizations attack and terrorize ethnic and religious minorities in...
Hundreds of Kurds and Arabs have been forced to leave their homes in villages in Rakka and Tel Abyad due to threats from ISIS. The aim of these attacks is to sever links between the Kurdish cantons of Kobane, Afrin and Cizîre that were declared in January this...
