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A fridge, a kettle and a farm. Metaphors abound in Turkey’s troubling presidential election
On Sunday June 24 Turkish voters will go to the polls to elect a new president, with five other candidates challenging incumbent and race favourite Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a five-year term.
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Turkish Presidential Candidate Demirtaş Speaks – From Prison
17th June: Selahattin Demirtaş, jailed presidential candidate for the Kurdish-backed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), made his presidential campaign speech on the state broadcaster TRT
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Ramin Hossein Panahi, Iranian Kurd, to Die…
Prison officials summoned Ramin Hossein Panahi on 19 May informing him that his execution will be carried out after 15 June, when the Muslim month of Ramadan ends
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AFRIN. Where’s the “PEACE & SECURITY” now, Turkey?
The factions of the Operation “Olive Branch” “…are still continuing to loot and thieve the property of the citizens, and the residents confirmed that factions have imposed royalties on the owners and farmers
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Irish poet Seamas Carraher published a poem for the people of Afrin
Séamas Carraher is a working class poet and writer born on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland
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Letter of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement about the Afrin Resistance
The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement’s [RAM] participation in World Afrin Day demonstrates the importance of establishing links between revolutionary freedom struggles
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TURKEY VERDICT: “GUILTY”!
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal met on the 15 & 16 March, 2018 to examine the alleged crimes committed by the Turkish Republic against the Kurdish people
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Turchia, il candidato Selahattin Demirtas rimane in carcere
l’appello per la scarcerazione di Selahattin Demirtas, in quanto candidato alle presidenziali del 24 giugno in Turchia, non è stato accolto dalle autorità giudiziarie
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Con il sostegno del Sud Africa, curdi e palestinesi uniti contro l’oppressione
Tra le molteplici condanne espresse in questi giorni per le brutali uccisioni operate dall’esercito israeliano, acquista particolare rilevanza quella del Comitato Esecutivo del PKK
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When our homes became front-line. Diaries of an internationalist in the Afrin resistance
In December 2017 I had the chance to be one of the few internationalists to be sent to Afrin to work in a society that has been under embargo for more than 6 years
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MORE BAD NEWS FROM AFRIN?
Turkey and its jihadist allies entered the Kurdish city on March 18, 2018, after 58 days bombing the region’s civilian population with the latest in NATO technology
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ELECCIONES EN IRAQ. ENTRE DIVISIONES INTERNAS Y PRESIONES EXTERNAS
Este sábado la población de Iraq ha sido convocada a votar para renovar su parlamento. Unas elecciones, las primeras después de que el Gobierno saliente declarara la victoria contra el Estado Islámico, marcadas por los fraccionamientos internos y las presiones externas
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Defend Rojava. An Open Letter
Many of those who fled Afrin are now sleeping in open fields or tent cities, lacking the most elementary necessities
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SiAmo Afrin.Perché la guerra contro i curdi riguarda anche noi
Medio Oriente. Lanciata la campagna SiAmo Afrin: ovunque vi sia da una parte un progetto di convivenza pacifica e dall’altra il desiderio di mistificare e annientare, è facile decidere da che parte stare
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The Other Side of Afrin Resistance: Communes are taking root
The responsibilities of communes have doubled since Turkey’s invasion. They have been securing shelter, water and electricity for the people who’s lives have been devastated by the shelling
Read MoreElectoral campaign kicks off in Iraq and South Kurdistan
Twenty list are competing for the 44 seats to be assigned in Başûr (South) Kurdistan
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AFRIN: AFTER THE DELUGE
As for Afrin. While the world continues to sleep. It is surely time now to weep for its people? Before day breaks and the alarm goes off and its back to the front lines.
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USA attacks in Syria: where and what was hit
The United States together with the United Kingdom and France have finally concretise their threat of striking Syria
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AFRIN: NEW ISIS CAPITAL ON THE WAY – VIA TURKEY?
Since Turkey gained control of the Afrin Region of Rojava following its entry to Afrin City on March 18 after 58 days resistance by the Kurdish YPG and its allies, concern has continued to grow about the fate of the region
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La spartizione della Siria nel vertice di Ankara tra Erdogan, Putin e Rohani
Il summit di Ankara. Un Paese, membro della Nato dagli anni ’50, bastione dell’Alleanza contro Mosca, si è messo d’accordo con la Russia e con l’Iran, bestia nera di Usa e di Israele
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