Peace in Kurdistan Press Release: Where: Committee Room 6, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA When: Tuesday 7 July 2015 // 6.30pm – 8.30pm Hosted by Kate Osamor MP KT Comment: Following the abominable ISIS massacre in Kobane – an atrocity that was clearly initiated from inside Turkey – the building of solidarity with the HDP…
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Yezidis Want Mass Exodus from Turkey
By Dr Amy L. Beam: Over 20,000 Yezidis from Shingal, Iraq, have been living in refugee camps in southeast Turkey since September, 2014. They do not want to face a second winter stuck in tents or over-crowed rooms in Turkey. They are faced with choosing between three deeply problematic options: remain living in refugee camps…
The US Senate Fails Those Who Fight ISIS on Behalf of the World
By Dr. Rashid Karadaghi: While the Kurds applaud wholeheartedly the vote by the fifty-five Senators who supported arming the Kurdish Peshmerga directly in their courageous fight against one of the biggest evils facing humanity today, they deplore the vote by the forty-five who voted against the measure due to some totally indefensible reasoning. One wonders…
Kurdistan Undergoes Real Demographic and Geographic Changes
By Mohammed Hussein: About 2 million Arab IDPs have fled into Kurdistan (the KRG areas and its disputed territories with Iraq) since 2014, and more than five towns have been depopulated in the disputed areas because of the IS combat. All these facts put Kurdistan in front of real demographic and geographic changes, so we…
Strathclyde Students Honour Kurdish Leader Imprisoned For 15 Years
Peace in Kurdistan Press Release: Leading Scottish writer James Kelman was among the speakers at a ceremony to honour imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan held at the University of Strathclyde Students Association (USSA) in Glasgow on Saturday 20 June. Kelman reflected on history and recalled how, “The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) had been a legitimate…
Girê Spî Liberated From Daesh: Kobani Celebrates, And Mourns
KT Report From Kobani: Girê Spî (Tel Abyad) has been liberated from Daesh (ISIS) by the YPG. The mainly Kurdish forces made a lightening advance into the town today (Monday) and the surviving jihadists have beat a retreat north into Turkey or south towards Raqaa, their stolen Syrian ‘capital’, 78 km away, reportedly without having…
US Volunteer ‘Died Fighting For Humanity’ Says Kobani PM, As YPG ‘Enters’ Girê Spî
By John Hunt: Hundreds of Kurds gathered in the ravaged centre of Kobani last Thursday to honour US citizen Keith Broomfield who died on 3rd June while fighting in the ongoing war between the YPG forces of Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) and Daesh (ISIS). Women, men and children stood around his coffin or above it on…
Why Kurds Have the Voice Now?
By Hanar Marouf: Pivotal elections in Turkey shifted the unexpected results to a historical advance. The actions started in January when the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) announced its running under the party’s name not independently. The result was a big blow to the Justice and Development Party (AKP). HDP’s leader Selahattin Demirtas has had…
We Want Immediate Change to Turkey’s Foreign Policy: HDP’s Prof. Dr. Mahmut Toğrul
KT Interview: Professor Dr. Mahmut Toğrul is number two on the HDP’s list of candidates in the city of Gazientep standing for election to the Turkish parliament. Q: Why are you standing for the HDP? Mahmut Toğrul: There are a few reasons. First, because it is for the brotherhood of Turkish peoples – Turks, Kurds,…
10% Then We’ll See – Campaigning For Tactical HDP Votes
KT Report: Tactical voting campaigns have been a new feature of this Turkish general election. Organised by HDP supporters, they have targeted voters who (1) don’t know who to vote for but (2) know they don’t want president Erdogan to extend his powers after the election, and possibly don’t want a continuation of one-party rule…
With the HDP I Am Embracing My Past: Celal Doğan Interview
KT interview: Celal Doğan is number one on the HDP’s list of candidates in the city of Gazientep standing for election to the Turkish parliament. He is a former CHP mayor of the city. If the HDP crosses the 10% threshold nationally, it’s likely that he will become a HDP MP. Q. It seems likely that the…
‘This Is Not an Election For the Parliament, But For Turkey’s Future’
By John Hunt: “We will not make you president”. These words, delivered by HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş in the Turkish parliament, became his party’s maxim in this critical election campaign. Demirtaş wanted to make it crystal clear that the HDP has no intention of doing a deal with president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to assist his…
Delegation from Britain heads to Turkey to observe crucial election
Peace in Kurdistan Press Release: A delegation of election observers from Britain is setting off for Turkey this week to monitor the proceedings of a vital general election whose outcome will determine the country’s future direction for a generation. The campaign has primarily pitted the authoritarian politics of Erdogan’s AKP against the challenge from the…
The Race Between HDP and AKP: Political Implications of June Elections in Turkey
By Dr Amir Sharifi: There is a great deal at stake for Kurdish human, cultural, and socio-economic rights in Turkey in the June election with ramifications for either contributing to democratic progress or the full emergence of an autocratic regime in Turkey. The larger question is the political outcome of moving from the bullet to…
Ghosts of Gezi and Kobani Haunt Erdoğan
By a KT Correspondent in Istanbul: With six days to go until Turkey’s general election on 7 June, the big question isn’t ‘Who will win?’ but ‘How will the HDP do?’ Everyone expects the ruling AKP to remain the largest party in parliament, but no one knows whether the fourth largest party, the pro-Kurdish HDP…
