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By Arian Mufid: Following the Kurds in the west of Kurdistan is like watching an ancient myth brought to life. This nation has declared their federal entity even though their brothers in the south of Kurdistan have been unable to achieve that goal for the last two decades. Strong reactions to this declaration have spread…
By Dr Amir Sharifi: The One Million Signature campaign has been organized for all conscientious individuals, human rights organizations and activists, and concerned citizens in different countries of the world. As we approach the arrival of our New Year, the struggle of our people like spring is surprising the world; the struggle for the right…
Interview by Karlos Zurutuza: This is a translation of the interview that appeared today on the Spanish edition of Vice News Salih Muslim Muhammad (born Kobani, Aleppo, 1951) is co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party-PYD, the political force that has led the uprising of the Kurds in Syria since the war began, in March 2011. After…
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…
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…
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,”…
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: When I gave some lectures about Kurdish history at the Mesopotamia Academy (Qamishlo, district Jazira) in October 2015, several students afterwards put questions like “Why don’t the democratic American and European governments help us more than they do now?”, “Why are we with our democratic society not welcome in…
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: At the end of the year 2015 it is useful to reflect upon the new society which the Kurds and minority groups like the Assyrians, Armenians, Jews, Arabs, Tschetchens and Aramaeans together have created in Rojava, the overwhelmingly Kurdish region in North Syria stretching along the border with terrorist Turkey…
By Yara Kamaran Ismael: News of the assassination of the prominent Kurdish lawyer, Tahir Elci, made it to the headlines. Although similar incidents happen occasionally in Kurdish areas in Turkey, this incident looked different, because Elci was openly calling for peace. He was shot dead after a press conference in Istanbul on November 18th. On that date, there…
By Dr Jan Best de Vries: The three cantons of Rojava: Efrin, Kobane and Jazira formed together since November 2013 an autonomous region as a result of the sacrifices brought by the members of the people’s army of YPG and YPJ since July 2012. Its mere existence forms a danger for both Turkey and the…
By John Hunt: Introduction Last week’s ISIS raid on Kobane, with the murder of more than 240 civilians, was a fiendish reprisal for the humiliating defeat the jihadists had suffered the previous week when they were driven from Tel Abyad by the YPG, supported by US air strikes. The Kobane raid began, probably from inside…
KT News: Following the ISIS genocidal attack on Kobane last week, today’s conference at the European Parliament to discuss the rebuildng of the city assumes added signifcance. As Kobane’s deputy foreign minister Idriss Nassan has put it: “Rebuilding is another form of resistance to terrorism”. The conference is being live-streamed at: http://helpkobane.com/ The event will be…
By Dr. Amir Sharifi: The following letter was sent to President Barack Obama; another version of it to to Vice President Joseph Biden: Dear Mr. President: We write to urge you to denounce the Turkish complicity in the recent attack launched by the Islamic State on the town of Kobani. Islamic State in its twin attack…
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…
By Dr. Jan Best de Vries: Around 3200 BPE, the agricultural, matriarchal cultures in West Asia and Europe were overthrown by nomadic, patriarchal tribes from the Russian and Siberian steppes. The members of peaceful communities were slaughtered and raped in the same way as the beasts of IS operate with their victims these days in…
