We will neither betray our martyrs nor oblige ourselves to the United States or the Turkish state. The Kurdish people are obliged to none but themselves. While there is still remains one Kurd in Kurdistan we will fight for our freedom.” Kurds want to participate...
Opening this week’s 10th international conference on ‘The EU, Turkey and the Kurds’, GUE/NGL President Gabi Zimmer expressed the group’s hopes for the recently launched peace process and urged the Turkish government to come up with concrete...
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) writes that on 25 November, at least 1800 prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezelhesar prison went on hunger strike. The protest begun after the transfer of yet another 11 prisoners of the unit to the place of their execution....
The Kurdish presence in the Syrian capital of Damascus dates back hundreds of years. They migrated in larger numbers during the period of Ottoman rule, traveling with pilgrimage caravans coming from southern Turkey. Until the 1950s, the neighborhood where they settled...
10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON “THE EUROPEAN UNION, TURKEY AND THE KURDS” Turkey, the Kurds and the Imrali Peace Process: An Historic Opportunity Brussels, European Parliament, 4th & 5th of December 2013 Room: ASP 1G2 ...
The seminar addressed the current opportunities for dialogue between the Turkish government and the Kurds within the context of the slow moving peace process which was in danger on stalling. The event organised by Peace in Kurdistan in association with...
