BBC, By Guney Yildiz – Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have begun leaving south-eastern Turkey for their main bases in northern Iraq, but there is no talk of disarmament yet. Instead, several top commanders of the PKK have said they will keep and even consolidate their forces. So [...]
Member of Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) coordination Amir Karimi gave a political speech at the ceremony of 9th anniversary of PJAK foundation on 20th April 2013 in capital of Sweden, Stockholm. This is the text of his speech: Representatives of parties and organizations, patriotic nation at the beginning we welcome [...]
ISTANBUL — Last Thursday was the start of the Kurdish New Year and, if all goes according to plan, the advent of a new era in Turkey’s relationship with its own Kurdish population. In Diyarbakir, the largest city in southeastern Turkey, a few hundred thousand people converged to listen to [...]
LONDON — Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, or P.K.K., called for a ceasefire Thursday in the three-decade war between P.K.K and the Turkish state, giving a new impetus to New Year celebrations by Kurds. Hundreds of thousands of Kurds gathered in the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir to [...]
For some time Turkey has been searching for ways to solve its Kurdish issue under the label of “the solution process.” Despite the optimism generated by this label, both the government and the Peace and Democracy Party [BDP] (along with other elements of parliament’s Kurdish wing) have shown prudence. One [...]
This week, jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan made a historic call for the PKK to lay down their arms and withdraw from Turkey. Politicians and scholars alike have greeted the unprecedented appeal as a critical and positive first step in ending the armed struggle that has plagued and defined Turkey’s [...]
What was read out yesterday was a declaration of peace and unity for Mesopotamia, Kurdistan and Anatolia. I listened to the “historic” declaration expected from Abdullah Ocalan on a live transmission from NTV. Everything was momentous yesterday [March 21]. All leading Turkish television channels were transmitting the Nowruz celebrations in Diyarbakir [...]
No matter where the rains fall in our region these days, the bloom is always Kurdish. In the Kurds’ view, be they elites or commoners, this political era is theirs — an era that would see the redressing of 90 years of injustices perpetrated against them since after the First [...]
Newroz, known as the Iranian New Year in the western world, is the beginning of the new year for some central Asia and Balkan countries, as well as the Kurds. On March 21, 2013, Newroz became more than the beginning of the new year for the Kurds. In Turkey, it was [...]
As the fighting continues and indeed intensifies it becomes more evident by the day that the turmoil in Syria has no easing in sight. This has to do with several reasons. Firstly, as the conflict wears on, the opposition that was organized by the country’s majority Sunni population looks more [...]
Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council member Mustafa Karasu spoke to Nuçe Tv on Sunday evening about the execution of Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement. [...]
Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Member Cemil Bayik, last week in his article in Azadiya Welat newspaper wrote about the previous ceasefires by PKK and the ongoing negotiations in Imrali prison with the leader of Kurd, Abdullah Ocalan. According to this article: The Kurdish liberation movement and leader Apo [...]
Free Life Party of Kurdistan, PJAK, issued a statement in relation to the 67th anniversary of establishment of Republic of Kurdistan. In the statement PJAK congratulates this day to the Kurdish people and emphasized that PJAK continues the goals of Republic of Kurdistan. PJAK also called all Kurdish political parties [...]
ANF, FERDA ÇETIN — The killings in Paris of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez have more known sides than the unknown, the latest being summed up by the question “who pulled the trigger”. When dealing with these type of actions, keeping the focus constantly on the “unknown side” [...]
It has been just over a week since the 68 day hunger strike of Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey and North Kurdistan ended following an appeal by the imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. Since that day everybody concerned with the hunger strike, Turkey, Kurdistan and the region has been debating [...]
Karlos Zurutuz; Syria’s three million Kurds are the country’s largest minority and have been part of the uprising since it first erupted. Their rebellion, however, is in a separate struggle. The Kurds have been fighting for basic rights under oppressive regimes ever since the Ottoman Empire fell after the First [...]
Jake Hess, To hear Mazlum Tekdağ’s story is enough to understand why 700 Kurdish political prisoners have gone on hunger strike in Turkey. His father was murdered by the state in front of his Diyarbakır pastry shop in 1993, when Mazlum was just nine years old. His uncle Ali was [...]
Danny Gold, On last Thursday, FSA rebels advanced into Kurdish and Christian neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria, in a daring attempt to capture the city. Initial reports based on FSA claims and somebody’s friend who spoke to someone in Aleppo on the phone had the rebels taking 90 percent of the [...]
PIK, In January this year, the City Court of Copenhagen ruled that Kurdish satellite station Roj TV was promoting terrorism through its coverage. An appeal has been made against the decision and this was heard on 29 October. Furthermore, eight people have been arrested during police investigations into Roj TV [...]
Robert Fisk, The photograph – never published before – was apparently taken in the summer of 1915. Human skulls are scattered over the earth. They are all that remain of a handful of Armenians slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks during the First World War. Behind the skulls, posing for the [...]
In the third anniversary of the martyrs of 9 Gulan (9 May), the Kurds in Europe and Australia paid respect...
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