Remembering Baloch Genocide Day and Kobanê Liberation Day
Common call from the Baloch National Movement and Ronahî Common call for the Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Baloch and the Day of Liberation of Kobanê The 25th and 26th of January are very important days. They are two dates associated with pain and suffering, but also with hope and strength. 25 […]
Killing the truth: Kurdish journalists Nazim Daştan and Cîhan Bilgin assassinated in Turkish drone strike near Kobanê
On 19 December 2024, the Turkish state once again revealed its ruthless nature by committing a reprehensible act of violence against the Kurdish media community. In a blatant attempt to silence and crush the spirit of resistance, a Turkish drone attack near Kobani brutally took the lives of courageous journalists Nazim Daştan and Cîhan Bilgin. […]
A Neo-Ottoman Empire – What are Turkey’s bloody plans for the Middle East?
In the early hours of Sunday morning, the world awoke to historic news. The decades-old Assad regime had been toppled and, more than ever, a new beginning for Syria was in sight. But a democratic and free Syria is not guaranteed by the ongoing war of annexion waged by Turkey and Turkey-backed jihadists. Like a […]
War in Syria: HTS and SNA – “rebels” or jihadists?
Western media reacted with lightning speed to the renewed fighting in Syria: “rebels” or “insurgents” were entering Aleppo, wrote most newspapers such as the BBC, CNN or FAZ. Other newspapers such as Süddeutsche or Le Monde write of “jihadists” or “islamists”. A closer look is necessary. Two groups are of particular importance: 1. the terrorist […]
Who are the Ezîdîs ? – One of the oldest ethno-religious communities in the world
A people from Mesopotamia The Ezîdis are an indigenous people of Mesopotamia. Today, due to genocidal attempts and persecutions throughout history, the Ezîdîs live scattered in different states, such as Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, but also in Europe and America. The main centre of Ezîdî life remains South Kurdistan, where to this day more than 350,000 […]
10 years after the Ezîdî genocide: what happened in 2014?
The Şengal massacre took place within the first days of ISIS’s1 capture of the town in 2014. More than 2,000 Ezîdî men were killed and thousands of abducted women and girls were sexually enslaved and sold through networks in complicit local states. ISIS’s terrorization of the predominantly Ezîdî city caused some 400,000 Ezîdîs to flee, […]
The Peace Mothers – about the resistance in the prisons and the hunger strike
As international delegation of young people, we visited the North Kurdistan region on the occasion of Newroz (new year’s celebration) and the local elections in Turkey, in which the Kurdish DEM party achieved great results. In this context, we observed the huge violations of rights by the Turkish regime towards Kurdish society, and at the […]
Fascist attacks against Kurds in Belgium – and who benefits from it
Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. Normally, the small town in the Limburg region does not attract a lot of attention. But on 24th of March, it became the scene of violence and stir-up hatred against Kurdish residents. Hundreds of Turkish fascists have gathered around the house of a Kurdish family, shouts of “Allahu akbar” can be heard, the […]