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In memory of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
On 9 January 2021 is the eighth anniversary of the brutal assassination in Paris of Sakine, Fidan and Leyla, three prominent Kurdish women political activists
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The book by YPJ commander Meryem Kobanê: A dream destroying borders
The first volume of the book of Meryem Kobanê, one of the commanders of the historical Kobanê war and victory, about those days, “Kobanê: Çepera Rûmetê” was published by Şilêr Publications
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How Syria’s Afrin became hell for Kurds
Afrin was once in a Kurdish majority region where women had more rights than elsewhere in Syria, a patriarchal country in a bloodthirsty war
Read MoreWorld Kobanê Day and the revolution in Rojava 0
On 1st November 2014, millions of people around the world took to the streets to express their solidarity with the heroic resistance of Kobanê
Read MoreFreedom for Ocalan! Peace for Kurdistan! 0
The campaign “End Isolation, Fascism and Occupation – Time for Freedom” was launched on 12 September. The Kurds have now declared that 10 October will be a global Freedom for Ocalan Day.
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La comunità internazionale tace sui crimini di Erdogan e Trump
Covid e guerre. Lasciare i crimini di Trump ed Erdogan senza reazioni forti ed efficaci significa contribuire alla perdita della capacità immunologica dei popoli della Terra di resistere e combattere i crimini dei potenti
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An interview with YPG/YPJ commander Meryem Kobane, on the anniversary of the Rojava Revolution – PART ONE
On the occasion of the 8th Year of the Rojava Revolution, we spoke with Meryem Kobane, one of the YPG/YPJ commanders who not only defended Kobane in 2015, inflicting a heavy defeat to ISIS, but who is also a leading figure in the Rojava Revolution
Read More3 August must be recognized as the “International Day of Action Against Femicide and Genocide” 0
This week marks the 6th anniversary of the August 3, 2014 massacre in Iraq’s Sinjar region of the Yazidi community by the so-called Islamic State as they swept into northern Iraq in 2014
Read MoreInterview with Hawzhin Azeez about Kurdish responses to COVID-19 in Rojava and Rojhelat 0
Dr. Jeff Miley interviews Dr. Hawzhim Azeez of the Center for Gender and Development Studies at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimani about Kurdish responses to COVID-19 in the Kurdish region of Syria as well as the Kurdish region of Iran
Read MoreMake Rojava Green Again Call for Action Days on the 18th and 19th July 0
We call for two international days of action on the 18th and 19th of July 2020, against the bombing and invasion of Basûr (Southern Kurdistan, Iraq) and the occupation of Rojava regions by the Turkish army
Read MoreTurkish drones killed three women in Kobanê 0
On 23 June, three activists of the women’s movement in north-east Syria were killed as a result of a drone attack carried out by Turkey in the village of Helincê (Halinja) near Kobanê
Read MoreMacer Gifford. “The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS” 0
Macer Gifford (Kurdish name) is the former British currency trader who fought with the Kurdish YPG militia against the Islamic State. Gifford fought with the YPG in 2015 and in 2016
Read MoreInterview: Civil Defense Forces commanders on community policing in North and East Syria 0
Zibeda Eli commands the Civil Defense Forces in Qamishlo and the Jazira region, while Samira Mihemed is the commander of the all-female Women’s Civil Defense Forces (HPC-Jin) in Qamishlo
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Erdogan apre un altro fronte e invade il Kurdistan iracheno
Medio Oriente. Non solo raid aerei, contro il Pkk inviati i soldati. Protesta Baghdad, Erbil in silenzio. Dal 1992 a oggi un’operazione dietro l’altra. Per nascondere le debolezze interne
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Iran – Still Executing Kurds
The Iranian regime, with its Revolutionary Guards at the helm, once again comes under international scrutiny for its disappearance and execution of political prisoners with little interest in due process
Read MorePervin Buldan: “Today, the biggest obstacle to another peace process in Turkey is the attitude of the AKP and MHP” 0
“Now in Turkey, whoever speaks about peace, the government will attack and jail them.”
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Turkish government’s onslaught on the HDP continues amid the fight against the coronavirus
Between March 11 and May 10, the police intervened in 8 events organized to protest the government’s measures on the Covid-19 and 42 people were detained. In addition, an investigation was launched against two members of parliament for their critical statements on Covid-19 measures
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Water for Rojava
While the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s right-wing government continues to attack the Kurdish-led Rojava Revolution. One of its weapons of war is water
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Remember, Boycott Turkey, NOW!
The list of outrages perpetrated by the Turkish republic, under the authoritarian rule of Turkish President Erdoğan in recent years seem endless. The enormous silence surrounding these criminal acts is equally outrageous
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Turchia. Dopo Helin Bolek, muore anche Mustafa Kocak in sciopero della fame
In sciopero della fame da 297 giorni, condannato all’ergastolo aggravato senza prove, un altro membro della band marxista Grup Yorum è morto di protesta
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