After over 95% of votes have been counted in the Turkish Presidential elections it appears that while Prime Minister Erdogan has won over 51% of the vote nationwide, in the Kurdish provinces Selahattin Demirtas has taken a majority of the votes cast. In the event of...
PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan told a HDP delegation that visited him on 15 August, the 30th anniversary of the PKK’s launching of the armed struggle: “this 30-year war is at a stage to end through democratic negotiations”. HDP Group chairs Pervin Buldan...
FT 15 August 2014 To the west, they are terrorists, yet they are now fighting on the same side as their interests converge with the US in the fight to help Iraq’s Kurdish forces stave off a jihadi offensive. Battle-hardened Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) militants...
NEWS 1. Presidential candidates in Turkey able to campaign freely, but playing field not level, say international observers 2. Kurdish self-confidence gets a boost from polls 3. Striking success of HDP in election 4. KCK: HDP faces a historic responsibility 5. Islamic...
On the 14th of August 2007, our Yazidi people in the Shiba and Shex Khidir villages of Shingal suffered a bloodthirsty massacre in which 450 of Yazidi Kurds lost their lives. We vehemently condemn the perpetrators of this massacre and remember with respect the victims...
