Speech by Tommy Murphy, Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference delegate: Chair, conference, ………………. Unite the Union moving emergency motion ….. on Turkey and solidarity with the Kurdish population. Colleagues it’s absolutely right that various unions have come together to submit this motion to conference. Anyone with even one eye on the news will have seen…
.jpg)
Category Archives: Kurd news
50 Kurdish Politicians on Indefinite Hunger Strike in Amed/Diyarbakır
Joint Statement by DTK, HDK, KJA, HDP and DBP: 50 Kurdish politicians began an indefinite hunger strike demanding that the state abide by international human rights and allow either his family or his lawyers of a party delegation to see Mr.Abdullah Öcalan with whom all communication has been cut for the last 515 days. Moreover, it is certain…
Joint Statement of Kurdish & Allied Parties in Syria on Turkish Invasion
Joint Statement: Following the defeat of extremist forces, such as Daesh, conspiratorial plans have started to unfold. Turkey’s latest attack on the Syrian territory in Jerablus city is a continuation of its old/new imperial policy. It is also a plan to occupy more Syrian territory under the pretext of fighting terrorism, i.e. Daesh. However, Turkey’s…
A Kurdish Journalist Is Brutally Murdered
By Suzan Jamal: I want to inform the entire world about the current situation in my homeland of Kurdistan, although it is difficult to do so. I do not like to speak negatively of Kurdistan, yet there is much injustice taking place there. In my homeland people live under hard circumstances; no salaries paid for…
Innocent Yezidi “Being Held For Her Own Security” in Kurdistan
By Dr. Amy L. Beam: The Yezidi woman who has been held since October 2014 in prison in Erbil, along with her child born in prison, went before a judge FINALLY this past week, after activist Amy L. Beam posted the story on her Facebook page, and after Erbil Asayish headquarters threatened Beam not to…
HDP: Urgent Call for Solidarity on the Closure and Storming of the Daily Özgür Gündem
HDP Statement: On August 16, 2016, Erdoğan regime’s attack on the media and press since the July 15 abortive coup took a different turn by the closure of the daily Özgür Gündem on court orders and the storming of its Istanbul headquarters by special operations police. The quarter-of-a-century-long history of Özgür Gündem represents all there…
Police Raid on HDP Istanbul Headquarters
HDP Statement: The Istanbul headquarters of HDP, the third largest party in the parliament representing the will of more than five million voters, was ravaged and vandalized by Turkish Police Special Operations teams at 3.00 a.m. on 11 August. Backed by a helicopter and armored vehicles, the police broke in the building like gangs; they…
Turkey: More Pressure on Minority Groups – Liberal Religious Community of Alevis Is Under Suspicion
Society for Threatened Peoples Press Release: The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is concerned about the fact that the Islamic government under Recep Tayyib Erdogan is putting pressure on the liberal religious community of the Alevis and other minority groups following the failed military coup in Turkey. “Erdogan’s regime is not only threatening Turkish people…
Turkey’s Failed Coup and Erdogan’s Anti-Kurdish Agenda
Analysis by the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK): On 15th July 2016 an unsuccessful attempt at a coup happened in Turkey. Even at this early stage, the post-coup process obviously will have important consequences. It is important to understand that this process was started on the 7th June 2015, when Erdogan lost the elections and conducted…
Turkey, World’s Most Racist State!
By Rebwar Rashed: The modern history of Turkey is the history of racism, discrimination and exclusion. Thus, it is a history of assimilation, extermination, deportation, displacement, harassment, imprisonment and persecution. The victims are many: Kurds, Assyrians and Armenians and also other non Hanafi-Islam sorts, especially the Alawits. In the rhetoric of Turkish state ideology and…
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign (PIK) Stands with Jeremy Corbyn, True Friend of the Kurds
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign Press Release: It is hard to believe that it is still less than ten months since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of his (UK Labour) party on an overwhelming mandate of nearly 60 percent of the membership. Many thousands of new members were inspired to join the Labour Party during his…
Is Erdogan Turning Today’s Turkey Into Tomorrow’s Syria?
By Arian Mufid: Yesterday’s terrorist attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport highlights the ultimate folly of President Erdogan’s policy of fostering ISIS and other jihadists, such as the Al Qaeda-affilliate al Nusra, mainly to counteract the righteous Kurdish movement for self rule. Now the deadly chickens he hatched in Syria are coming home to roost. Given…
The Turkish State Continues To Commit War Crimes In Kurdistan
Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Statement: Women, men, the old and young are all attacked, wounded and killed. Villages and cities with historical buildings, hospitals, schools, businesses and homes are bombed and wantonly destroyed. Agricultural land with livestock are all being burnt and scorched. End the massacres of humans and nature that are taking place in…
International Call for the Freedom of Öcalan
Press Conference Report: Several European parliamentarians and human rights defenders met in front of the Council of Europe last Friday and issued a call for the freedom of Öcalan. As the vigil for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan being in front of the Council of Europe by representatives from institutions in the European Kurdish Democratic…
Open Letter To President Masoud Barzani On The Closure Of The Kurdish Women’s Relation Office (REPAK) In Erbil
By Peace in Kurdistan-Women Alliance: We, the undersigned call upon you to exercise your executive authority to permit the Kurdish Women’s Relation Office (REPAK) in Erbil to reopen in order to continue its legitimate activities which are entirely in accord with the law. On 5 May 2016 the REPAK premises in the city were raided…
