Change the way I write and tweet because of the intimidations of an undemocratic system? Unthinkable! 8/1/2015 – A friend just called to ask me how I am doing after my detention by the anti terrorism squad (TEM) of the Diyarbakir police, earlier this week. I...
(Reuters) – Kurdish and Yazidi fighters battled to take the strategic northern Iraqi town of Sinjar back from Islamic State on Sunday after breaking a months-long siege of the mountain above it. Seizing the town would restore the majority of territory...
Fazel Hawramy on Mount Sinjar – The Guardian, Sunday 21 December 2014 Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by US-led air strikes pushed Islamic State militants out of a large area around Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, according to Kurdish officials. “We have managed...
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has become a de facto ally of the US in its fight against IS. Now it wants to be taken off the State Department’s terror list. Ekurd.net – December 23, 2014 QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraqi Kurdistan,— When the United States...
Report of the situation of the hunger strikers on 16th of December 2014 On Thursday, 20th of November 2014, 27 Kurdish political prisoners in Urmiye’s central prison started a large scale...
ANF – 19/12/2014 The “Back to Life” operation was carried out fourteen years ago in several prisons in order to solve the so-called “prison problem” in Turkey and end the death fast of...