Firat News Agency, 5/1/15 – On the second anniversary of the murder in Paris of Kurdish women Sakine Cansız (Sara), Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) and Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî) on 9 January 2013, the Kurds are to hold a march under the...
BBC, 6/1/15 – Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) in Kobane, northern Syria, have seized a key district and now control 80% of the town, activists say. Syrian Kurds backed by Iraqi Peshmerga forces captured the security district including the police HQ,...
Al Monitor, 7/1/15 – As Turkey’s Kurdish peace process seems to devolve into a “crisis process,” government quarters have begun suggesting the idea that the Kurdish Islamist Free Cause Party (Huda-Par) is the sole force capable of finishing off the Kurdistan...
Change the way I write and tweet because of the intimidations of an undemocratic system? Unthinkable! 8/1/2015 – A friend just called to ask me how I am doing after my detention by the anti terrorism squad (TEM) of the Diyarbakir police, earlier this week. I...
By David Morgan, Peace in Kurdistan Campaign, 1 January 2015 Peace and stability in Turkey, in Kurdistan, in the Middle East and in the wider world might seem extremely precarious and elusive prospects in the light of the descent into chaos in Syria and Iraq witnessed...
(Reuters) – Kurdish and Yazidi fighters battled to take the strategic northern Iraqi town of Sinjar back from Islamic State on Sunday after breaking a months-long siege of the mountain above it. Seizing the town would restore the majority of territory...
