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    Koloniya kevn a Îspanyayê hîn jî di bin dagirkeriya Fasê de ye û vê dewletê heta niha nehiştiye referandûma self-determînasyonê bê lidarxistin. Peymana Sêalî ya Madrîdê ku di 14’ê Mijdara 1976’an hatibû îmzekirin, îsal 40 salan li dûv xwe dihêle. Bi vê peymanê, Îspanya ji Sahraya Rojava vekişiya …

Alarmed by Kurdish territorial gains, Turkey fears that the latest creation of autonomous Tel Abyad canton could stir separatism among its own Kurdish minority. Threatening continued assaults on the Kurdish militia in Syria, the Turkish president has warned he will not request anyone’s permission to do whatever is necessary to …

    Serokwezîrê kevn ê Jamayîkayê PJ Patterson nivîsand ku Serokwezîrê Brîtanyayê Cameron gotiye “dema koletiyê êdî zû de derbasbûye” lê ev ne rast e. Li gorî Patterson koletî îro jî li ser piya ye û dom dike. Serokwezîrê kevn ê Jamayîkayê li ser axaftina David Cameron a di 30’yê …

      Fermandarekî payebilind ê artêşa Endonezyayê yê li Papûaya Rojava ji ber îhlalkirina mafên mirov ji gelê Papûaya Rojava lêborînê xwest. Papûaya Rojava nêzîkî 60 sal in ji aliyê Endonezyayê hatiye dagirkirin. Fermandarê Herêma Cenderawasih General Hinsa Siburian di merasîma ku bi minasebeta 70. damezrandina artêşa Endonezyayê ya di …

        Photo: In the Dengbêj House of Diyarbakir (by D. Bettoni) Dimitri Bettoni The Dengbêj represent the collective memory of the Kurdish people, having resisted the Turkish government attempts to assimilate them. A tradition that goes back many centuries, words that reverberate against the mountain walls and …

      Li Komara Domînîkê welatiyên ji dêbavên ji Haîtiyê hatine bi problemên giran ên welatîbûnê re rû bi rû mane. Bi deh hezaran welatiyên bi vî rengî çend salên dawîyê ji mafên welatîbûnê bêpar in. Di Rezbera 2013’an de Dadgeha Bingehîn a Domînîkê bi biryarekê mafên welatîbûnê ji …

          Di 60. salvegera damezrandina Herêma Xweser a Tirkîstana Rojhilat (Xinjiang) de Çîn pesnê xweseriya vê herêmê da. Çînê diyar kir ku li Tirkîstana Rojhilat di 60 salên dawî de pêşketineke berfireh derketiye holê. Kongreya Ûygûr a Cîhanê jî bi daxuyaniyekê daxwaza mafê self-determînasyonê kir. Bi …

        In Cizre district of Şırnak, which was sort of devastated by Turkish state forces during the nine-day curfew between 4-12 September, which left 21 civilians dead, people haven’t given up on the idea of self-rule, the declaration of which was responded by the state with brutal …

          Photo: PYD Congress Day by day, Turkey’s onslaught against the Kurds is intensifying. Just last month, Ankara launched over 500 air strikes against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), while targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) only 3 times. By now, even senior U.S. …

        The Iraqi Kurdistan dilemma: President Barzani’s term has ended, “Islamic State” jihadists are at the region’s doorstep; Turkey and the PKK are at war. Simple solutions are not in sight. If the number of migrants in the Autonomous Region Kurdistan in northern Iraq is any measure, …

        On his visit late last month to Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, President Hassan Rouhani made an important announcement. For the first time, Kurdish language studies will officially be offered to university students. With the opening of a Kurdish Language and Literature program at the University of Kurdistan, Article …

    Diyarbakir’s Kurdish community has a long tradition of resistance. Many in the younger generation grew up with images of dead relatives – martyrs from the PKK-Turkey war of the nineties.   By Dominique Soguel DIYARBAKIR, TURKEY — In her flowing dress, leather sandals, and sunglasses, Ozgur Yesha, whose name …

Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy   Boris Leverink The introduction to the new book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2015), explains how Murray Bookchin – born to Russian Jewish immigrants …

      By Joris Leverink On August 1, 2015   For years, the Turkish central government, led by the former prime minister and current president Erdogan, has claimed that there is no such thing as a “Kurdish problem”, denying the fact that the country’s Kurdish population has been discriminated against on the …

      Belgefîlma li ser têkoşîna rizgariya Sahraya Rojava ya bi navê “Em serhildêr in: Sahraya Rojava” hat kişandin. Em serhildêr in rêzebelgefîlmek di derbarê çar welatên hatine dagirkirin û têkoşîna wan a ji bo serxwebûnê ye de ye. Di çar beşan de li ser pêvajoya Kaledonyaya Nû ya …

        In Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey, there are at least 20,000 refugees, including many Yazidis, who dream of reaching Europe.  Dimitri Bettoni | Diyarbakır 24 July 2015 Refugees’ camp – Anna Pazos In Diyarbakır, euphoria for the electoral results [of the parliamentary elections of June 7th, ed.] is …

        Serokê Endonezyayê Joko “Jokowi” Widodo soz da ku qanûna li ser mafên xweciyan a demeke dirêje hatiye sekinandin, wê bê qebûlkirin. Jokowi vê teahuda xwe di civîna xwe ya bi Tifaqa Gelên Komegiravan (AMAN) re eşkere kir. Jokowî di heman deme de diyar kir ku ew …

  Gava yekemîn a naskirina polîtîk a Papûaya Rojava hat avêtin   Têkoşîna 53 salan a ji bo serxwebûna Papûaya Rojava serkeftineke dîplomatîk bi dest xist. Koma Pêşeng a Melanezyayê (MSG) statuya çavdêriyê da tevgera serxwebûnxwaz a Papûaya Rojava. Ji bo endamtiya tevgera Papûayê kurtedemek berê 150,000 daxwazname pêşkêşî MSG’yê …

      Photo: Kurds demonstrate in Strasbourg calling for Ocalan’s release, February 2015. Demotix/ Jonathan Rae. All rights reserved. Past experience suggests that this unclarity about the peace process may once again open the door for brutal conflict. Turkey and the Kurds share the aim of ending their long-standing …

  The 21-year-old is one of dozens of members of the autonomous Kurdish region’s peshmerga forces studying at a school in the northern Iraqi village of Bahra, some three kilometres (two miles) from the closest Islamic State (IS) group position. A sign on a house in the village reads “Peshmerga School”, …

    The Kurdish institute is about to disappear, is in danger of dying! It has no more money. The best, the biggest Kurdish Institute, which represents 25 million Kurds — perhaps even 30, the only people without a State — the Institute is threatened. So, please, it must be …