A new Day is dawning in Turkey
On 27th of February, Abdullah Öcalan called the PKK to dissolve and lay down the arms. On 1st March 2025, the PKK responded with the declaration of a ceasefire, making sure that it is not an end but a new beginning for the struggle. The message of Öcana is a valuable and unique call for […]
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. […]
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, […]