Published by Al-Monitor, May 28, 2015 – As Turkey’s June 7 general elections draw near, the fate of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinges on whether the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), an offshoot of the...
Ekurd Daily, 4/6/15, DIYARBAKIR-AMED, Unidentified assailants fired on a campaign minibus of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey’s Kurdish region in the southeast of the country, on Wednesday, killing the driver, local media reported, only days...
Published by Bianet, Istanbul, May 26, 2015 200 people, journalists, academicians, artists, poets and writers among them, called on the government: Provide a safe and peaceful election urgently without giving in the President’s unlawful and uneasy interventions. 200...
Published by Al-Monitor, May 22, 2015 ERBIL, Iraq — As the tenure of Iraqi Kurdistan’s President Massoud Barzani is coming to an end soon, the question of transfer of power has divided Kurdish political factions and threatens to destabilize the Kurdistan Region...
Published by The Maghreb and Orient Courier, May 2015 Akram Hesso is the Prime Minister of the Regional Government of the Jazeera (Cizîrê), one of the three Kurdish cantons in northern Syria, called « Rojava ». Each one of the three cantons has declared its regional...
Published by The Maghreb and Orient Courier, May 2015 Since February 2015, Syria has entered its 4th year of a full, intense and bloody war. One year ago, in May 2014, despite a few setbacks, loyalists (Syrian government) seemed to hold firmly after series of...
