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          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 …

  The state The State is a social contract, a guarantee of social order in exchange for which the citizens agree to reduce their freedom. According to Carré de Malberg, one of France’s leading constitutional scholars, “the state is a community of men attached to a territory with an organization, from which …

Historically, the Al-Faili name was generated from the Arabic language, and the actual name was (Pahla), meaning Parthia, which was a kingdom that was based in the modern day of Iran, and it was contemporaneous with the Roman Empire. This change occurred due to the Arabic alphabet, that lacks the …

  Cuma Çiçek 15 June 2015 HDP success cannot be understood without taking into consideration the ongoing Kurdish spring in Iraq, Syria and Turkey over the last decade.   Turkey left behind it a thirteen-year-long period of single-party majority governments in the June 7 election. AK Party (Justice and Development Party) …

      Nûnerê Tevgera Rizgariyê ya Yekgirtî ya Papûaya Rojava (ULMWP) yê Koma Pêşeng a Melanezyayê Amatus Douw 150,000 daxwaznameyan pêşkêşî Serokwezîrê Vanuatuyê kir. Welatiyên Papûaya Rojava dixwazin ji bo endamtiya tam a rêxistina wan a di Koma Pêşeng a Melanezyayê de Vanuatu destekê bide wan. Serokwezîrê Vanuatuyê wê …

  Dr. Hussein Tahiri Recent developments within Turkey’s mainstream political framework have led some to suggest an alternative strategy based on peaceful engagement might succeed where violence has failed. Indeed, the stunning electoral gain made by the Peoples’ Democratic Party, HDP, at the recent elections raises the question as to …

        As Iraqis and Syrians fight, Kurds are holding elections and drafting laws. After Kurds also won in Turkish elections, nationalists hope the 100th birthday of the Sykes-Picot may be its last and borders will be redrawn. As Turkish voters went to the polling booths, Iraq’s Kurds …