Fazel Hawramy on Mount Sinjar – The Guardian, Sunday 21 December 2014 Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by US-led air strikes pushed Islamic State militants out of a large area around Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, according to Kurdish officials. “We have managed...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has become a de facto ally of the US in its fight against IS. Now it wants to be taken off the State Department’s terror list. Ekurd.net – December 23, 2014 QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraqi Kurdistan,— When the United States...
Report of the situation of the hunger strikers on 16th of December 2014 On Thursday, 20th of November 2014, 27 Kurdish political prisoners in Urmiye’s central prison started a large scale...
ANF – 19/12/2014 The “Back to Life” operation was carried out fourteen years ago in several prisons in order to solve the so-called “prison problem” in Turkey and end the death fast of...
ANF – MARAŞ 19.12.2014 According to official numbers, 111 people, mostly Alevis, were massacred savagely in the Maras Massacre from 19 to 25 December 1978. The witnesses of the massacre can not forget the agony of massacre despite 36 years passing over...
Ekurd.net – December 19, 2014 SURUC, Turkey’s Kurdish region,— From a hilltop about half a mile from the besieged Kurdish-Syrian city of Kobani, the sounds of heavy weapons can be heard echoing from inside what was once a prosperous border town of about...
