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Woman killed by Turkish assailant in HDP offices in Izmir

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

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. …

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Turkey: 29-year-old Kurdish journalist charged with terrorist propaganda

Posted on by Naila Bozo

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. Yasar, alleging that she has been doing propaganda on behalf of the …

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KRG: Support Kurds, not Turkey

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

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 autonomous administration of Northeastern Syria, marking an …

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“Operation Hypocrisy” – A Legal Criticism of the Turkish Military in Afrin

Posted on by Laszlo Bugyi

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 Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” with the goal of securing …

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The song of Kurdistan met with barking bullets and choking gas

Posted on by Kenan Meral

In 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, …

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Mother, I Am Guerrilla

Posted on by Naila Bozo

He looked like my father, the grey-haired, tanned Kurdish mayor of a little district made up of only 120,000 people in southeastern Turkey. To me, most Kurdish men who have fathered children look alike. They are stern. They are sometimes …

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A Terrorist Lives in Turkey

Posted on by Naila Bozo

Since summer last year Turkish armed forces have been laying siege on neighborhoods and entire districts in Kurdish towns and cities under the guise of state-imposed, around-the-clock curfews, killing more than 250 civilians and displacing 350,000 people in the Kurdish …

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A letter from the basement of death in Cizre

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We bring a letter sent to Danish-Kurdish politician Serdal Benli from Kurdish journalist Asya Tekin who for the past two months has been in the Kurdish city of Cizre besieged by Turkish armed forces that has caused the deaths of …

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