By Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: ‘Women, reborn to freedom, will amount to general liberation, enlightenment and justice in all institutions of society…the 21th century “must” be the area of awakening, the era of the liberated, emancipated women’ – Abdullah Ocalan On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2016, Peace in Kurdistan campaign stands alongside all Kurdish women,…
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Mark Thomas: ‘Proud to Stand in Solidarity With the Brave Men and Women Who Organise Together and Fight as Equals’
By Mark Thomas: This was the message by the comedian Mark Thomas to Sunday’s UK national ‘Stop Turkey’s War on Kurds! Break the Silence!’ demonstration: Comrades and friends, I am sorry not to join you today but despite my best efforts the vagaries of privatised public transport have prevented me joining you. I am massively…
Iraq: Establishing Security is the Biggest Challenge
By Muhamed Hassan – Immersed Thinking: Casualty figures in Iraq are a grim reminder of the government’s inability to protect its citizens. It is a failure that should be one of the principal factors behind any prospective state reforms. It should take precedence over any other domain because, without sustaining security, it would be far…
National UK Demonstration: Stop Turkey’s War on the Kurds – Break the Silence!
Sunday 6th March 2016, Assembling 12 noon BBC Broadcasting House marching to Trafalgar Square for rally at 2-5pm. Speakers include: Natalie Bennett Green Party Leader, Kate Osamor MP, Natalie McGarry MP, Lindsey German Stop the War Coalition, Mark Thomas Comedian, Jeremy Hardy Comedian, Tariq Ali, Peter Tatchell, Weyman Bennet Unite Against Fascism and many other…
Yazidi Women Are Sold Heartlessly
By Muhamed Hassan – Immersed Thinking: Two worlds with two totally different contents: one world hosts the Paris Fashion Show with French designer Olivier Rousteing and his A-list women pals to model his autumn 2016 designs. The Mail said: ‘The girls failed to crack a smile and looked rather miserable as they flaunted their colourful…
Stop the Shameful and Unjust Suit of HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtas
Press Release by the EU-Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC): The EUTCC joins all other advocates of legal due process as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its corresponding EU declarations and respectfully appeals to the Independent democratic Turkish judiciary to dismiss the frivolous libel suit against HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtas for insulting the…
Turkish Army Suffers Heavy Losses in Kurdistan: Why Does Ankara Hide This?
By the Inside Syria Media Center: The Inside Syria Media Center reports from Iraq that the Turkish armed forces suffered heavy losses in a battle against the Kurds on 16 February 2016. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters downed a Turkish S-70 Black Hawk helicopter with heavy machine gun fire. The helicopter crashed in an…
Stop the Massacre in Sur!
By Figen YÜKSEKDAĞ and Selahattin DEMİRTAŞ, Co-chairs of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP): Across 58 separate curfews imposed in several neighborhoods of the 21 districts of 7 Kurdish provinces, 290 citizens have so far lost their lives. The curfew and blockade in the Sur district of Diyarbakir, declared by Diyarbakır Governorship with absolutely no legal…
From Turkey, Raqqa; ISIS Launches Fierce Attacks On Tal Abyad
YPG Press Office Statement: ROJAVA, Syria (February 27, 2016) After an effective military campaign in the town of Shadadi enabled the Syrian Democratic Forces (S.D.F.) to inflict significant blows to the Daesh (ISIS), elements of that terrorist group last night, February 26, launched a series of coordinated attacks on the city of Tal Abyad (Gire Spi). The massive…
Invitation to the 2016 Newroz Celebrations in Diyarbakir
By 2016 Newroz Organizing Committee: We cordially invite you to join us welcome Newroz (Kurdish New Year, March 21st) in Diyarbakir on Newroz, the spring equinox, is celebrated across a vast geography as the harbinger of the joint revival of nature and society. For the Kurdish people Newroz is also the symbol of struggle against…
Athens Conference on Ocalan and the International Conspiracy Against the Kurds
By Margaret Owen O.B.E (UK Barrister and Patron of Peace in Kurdistan): Athens Conference, Monday 13th February The International Legal Context of Ocalan’s Abduction and the Conspiracy of States in this Violation of International Law Finally, 17 years after Abdullah Ocalan was brutally and unlawfully abducted in Nairobi, drugged, blindfolded and taken to Turkey…
Stop Erdogan’s Fascism Before it Does More Damage!
By Rebwar Rashed: Just prior to the first Turkish national election on June 7th 2015, Erdogan started a reactionary war on Kurdish people. The aim was to scare Kurdish voters, minimizing public gatherings and meetings. Tens of bombs exploded in Kurdish areas against Kurdish people, killing hundreds and wounding many more. Even the bomb that…
Declaration of the Conference of European Left Parties in Amed
Declaration on 21 February 2016: We as Kurdish, Turkish and European left and democratic forces stand together in our fight for democracy, peace, diversity and social justice. We are gathered here today to call on the Turkish Government to stop the massacres and killings of civilians in the besieged Kurdish cities. Civilian woman and children…
Turkish Army Attacks on Syrian-Kurdish enclave of Afrin
Society for Threatened Peoples Press Release: Society for Threatened Peoples accuses Erdogan of serious violations of international law The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) accuses the Turkish government of serious violations of international law in connection with the attacks on the Syrian-Kurdish enclave of Afrin. “There has been no provocation by the administration in Afrin,”…
UK National Demonstration: Stop Turkey’s War on the Kurds
Press Release: Break the silence! 6th March 2016, 13:00-17:00 BBC Broadcasting House to Trafalgar Square There is a civil war being fought in the cities and towns of southeast Turkey. Fifty two (52) round-the-clock curfews have been imposed by the central government on Kurdish-majority communities; in some places for the last three months. The government…
