Ömer Mutlu was given 13 years and 9 months in prison for lowering Turkish flag in Amed last year. Ömer Mutlu has received a long prison sentence for lowering the Turkish flag at a Turkish Air Force base during a protest into...
Gultan Kisanak, now mayor of Diyarbakir, speaks with journalists after casting her ballot in Diyarbakir on March 30, 2014. (photo by ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP/Getty Images) Gultan Kisanak is the first female mayor of the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, which is widely...
Voters in 12 cities across the Cizîrê Canton of Rojava went to the polls yesterday in order to elect municipal councils, explains an article in Özgür Gündem. Polls opened at 8:00 AM local time and voters were able to cast their ballots until 08:00 in the evening. 160...
KI, Brussels, 19/2/15, Reports from BBC, Kurdish Question and Amnesty International BREAKING: Saman Naseem’s execution did not go ahead as originally scheduled this morning (19/2/15). Saman remains at risk so please keep the pressure on the Iranian government to halt...
James Harkin, Vanity Fair News, 18/2/15 At 10 A.M. on January 16, the day I arrived in Sinjar city in northern Iraq, three suicide bombs exploded at precisely the same moment, sending huge plumes of smoke over the rooftops. Much of Sinjar had already been destroyed:...
Journalist Toon Lambrechts and Roel Pulinx (camera) are currently working on a documentary about Rojava. They visited different parts of Rojava on two separate journeys, in spring 2014 and winter...
