Dear friends, Another year, another Newroz. Amazingly, the Kurds have held firm. They are still enormously effective, men and women, all religions, all regions and all regional linguistic inflections. You are all wonderful. There have been many losses. I deeply regret...
We have a common responsibility to prevent another genocide It started with Kobane and Sinjar, and now we are witnessing the same developments in Til Temir, Serê Kanî and Al Hasaka. Since February 22th, these areas have come under a brutal and barbaric assault by the...
19 Feb 2015 by Yvo Fitzherbert The liberation of Kobani was a bittersweet victory that left the town devastated. Reconstruction has begun and the need for solidarity and aid is urgent. “When Kobani was liberated, it was a beautiful feeling. A feeling of...
KI, Brussels, 19/2/15, Reports from BBC, Kurdish Question and Amnesty International BREAKING: Saman Naseem’s execution did not go ahead as originally scheduled this morning (19/2/15). Saman remains at risk so please keep the pressure on the Iranian government to halt...
James Harkin, Vanity Fair News, 18/2/15 At 10 A.M. on January 16, the day I arrived in Sinjar city in northern Iraq, three suicide bombs exploded at precisely the same moment, sending huge plumes of smoke over the rooftops. Much of Sinjar had already been destroyed:...
10.3 Million Signatures for Peace and Freedom for Öcalan Statement of the International Initiative, 13 February 2015 In March 1999, when the International Initiative “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan—Peace in Kurdistan” was founded, it was unthinkable. Unthinkable, that...
