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. …
Posted in Free speech, Turkey | Tagged Alliance for Kurdish Rights, European Union, HDP, Kurdish rights, Turkey | Comments Off on Woman killed by Turkish assailant in HDP offices in IzmirIt 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, were …
Posted in Culture, Discrimination, Executions, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Turkey, Women | Tagged Kurdish rights, Women's day | Comments Off on Remembering Leyla, Fatma, Asya, Zara – remembering Kurdish womenZozan 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. Yasar, alleging that she has been doing propaganda on behalf of the …
Posted in Activism, Discrimination, Free speech, Journalists, Language, Suppression, Turkey, Women | Tagged Free Speech, Journalism, Kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkey: 29-year-old Kurdish journalist charged with terrorist propagandaThree 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 the border with Turkey. It is …
Posted in Syria, Terror | Tagged Kurdish rights, Rojava, Syria, War | Comments Off on Explosions kill 6 civilians, injure more than 30 in QamishloKurdish 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 Jalalian is a Kurdish woman in the beginning of her thirties who was …
Posted in Activism, Call to Actions, Extrajudicial Punishment, Health, Iran, Political Prisoners, Women | Tagged Human Rights, Iran, Jalalian, Kurdish rights | Comments Off on Call to Action: Kurdish political prisoner denied medical aid in IranZara 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 two other teachers, Idris Menbari and Rebwar Menbari; they …
Posted in Iran, Language, Political Prisoners, Women | Tagged Human Rights, Iran, Kurdish rights | Comments Off on Kurdish teacher detained by Iran: Freedom for Zara MohammediMy 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 Qamişlo (Al-Kamishli), a city …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Culture, Discrimination, Free speech, Syria | Tagged Kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Syria | Comments Off on Who am I? Kurdistan’s Resistance in ArtIn the most authentic sense, the establishment of Rojava will reject the chaos of terror, pursue the enfranchisement disempowered classes of all varieties, and primarily export the culture of democracy. With the keen will power of strong women and men, …
Posted in Activism, Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey | Tagged Kurdish rights, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey, War | Comments Off on The song of Kurdistan met with barking bullets and choking gas