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Woman killed by Turkish assailant in HDP offices in Izmir

Today at 11 AM local time, a female party member by the name of Deniz Poyraz was killed in HDP’s (People’s Democratic Party) Izmir Provincial Building, local media reports. The assailant also tried to set the HDP building on fire. …

It was evening we barely escaped. Like the rain falling we could not stop. We were a train of tears as we were walking there like a winding trail of smoke a village climbing a mountain. We were wet, w...

Zozan Yasar, a 29-year-old Kurdish journalist residing in the UK, has been charged by Turkey with disseminating terrorist propaganda. The Turkish Prosecution Services have raised charges against Ms. Y...

Three explosions in the city center of Qamishlo on Monday has left 6 civilians dead and at least 30 wounded, say local reports and AFP. Qamishlo is located in the northeastern region of Rojava near t...

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian continues to be denied sufficient medical treatment, writes Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) who has spoken to Ms. Jalalian’s family. Zeynab Jal...

We are not a pitiful people but not one year passes by without a great injustice or tragedy occurring to the Kurdish people. Most recently, the Turkish state launched airstrikes against Rojava, an aut...

Zara Mohammedi, a 27-year-old Kurdish teacher, was arrested on May 23rd, 2019 by Iranian authorities for teaching Kurdish children to speak and read in their mother tongue. She was arrested alongside ...

                My summers in Syria were hazy but not just due to the heat and the dust swirled up by cars moving fast through the streets. The people of Qamiş...

On January 21st, Anadolu Agency, the state-run Turkish news agency, ran a story with the headline “Muslims pray in Mecca for Turkey’s victory in Afrin” implying a positive moral foundation of Tu...