60 members of the European Parliament have issued a statement calling on EU and member states to provide urgent support for the reconstruction in Kobanê and ensure the opening of a humanitarian corridor into the town. Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 12:00 PM BRUSSELS...
Al Jazeera has published a video by a Turkish-Kurdish filmmaker about the Kurdish singer Nûdem Durak. The singer’s future is uncertain, because the Turkish government allegedly has convicted her to 10.5 years imprisonment for “promoting Kurdish propaganda”, according...
05 April 2015 – ANF – Amed Published by Kurdish Question The Municipality of Rome has taken the decision to recognise Kobanê municipality as a ‘sister city’. Councillor Gianluca Peciola said the resistance put up by the people of the city and the new...
Published by Rudaw, May 1, 2015 BRUSSELS, Belgium – The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq will henceforth be allowed to attend high-level meetings between the European Union and Baghdad, according to an EU decision. “Now that we are...
Published by Ekurd.net, May 3, 2015 DUHOK, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— In happier times, Ammar Salim Khidhir dedicated much of his art to children, making larger-than-life statues of characters such as SpongeBob SquarePants from materials including sponge and silicone....
Published by Foreign Policy, John Hudson – May 6, 2015 The president of Kurdistan’s regional government on Wednesday backed off a long-held demand that the United States directly supply arms to the northern Iraqi region he heads in the war against Islamic State...
