Category Archives: UK

Freedom for Ocalan, Political status for Kurds: London demonstration

Ocalan banner

Date and time: Wednesday 15th February 2012 – 1pm Start Point: Halkevi Kurdish Turkish Community Centre 31-33 Dalston Lane E8 3DF End Point: Amnesty International Kurds are marching for the freedom of their leader Abdullah Ocalan! Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

London demonstration on anniversary of south Kurdistan uprising

Freedom Square in Sulaymani

The Freedom Umbrella is organizing a mass demonstration in London on the anniversary of the uprising in the south of Kurdistan. Date: Friday 17 February Time: 2-4 afternoon Place: 23 Buckingham Gate, London, SW1E 6LB (Nearest tube stations: St James’s Park, Victoria) The Freedom Umbrella is urging the Kurdish diaspora to join this demonstration. In…

Kurdish child asylum seekers win compensation from UK government for detention ordeal

Four Kurdish child asylum seekers from Turkey who spent 13 months locked up in a British immigration centre have won six-figure out-of-court compensation from the Home Office. In 2002 the Ay family were removed from their home and detained in one room. At the time the four Ay children – Dilovan, Newroz, Beriwan and Medya…

UK Government is warming up to the Kurdistan Region

By Shwan Zulal: The long drawn out dispute over the validity of oil and gas contacts in the Kurdistan Region continues. Investors and oil companies are slowly becoming convinced that the Kurdistan Region will dig in its heels and make sure it keeps control of its oil and gas. It must feel like being Sisyphus…

Former UK PM opens British Consulate in Erbil

From Krp.org: Former UK PM Sir John Major arrives in Erbil, opens British Consulate Salahadin, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, – President Masoud Barzani on Saturday welcomed Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in his office in Salahaddin. Sir John Major played a major role in establishing a UN-mandated safe-haven for…