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
The Ezîdî community is a Kurdish-speaking ethno-religious group that originated in Mesopotamia. They are known to follow an ancient religion : the Êzdiyatî or Ezidism, and to have suffered more than 70 genocides and massacres in the course of their history.
10 years after the Ezîdî genocide: what happened in 2014?
In August 2024, we commemorated the Şengal massacre. The invasion and atrocities of that day marked the beginning of a brutal genocidal campaign by ISIS, with the complicity of the KDP and the Turkish state, against the indigenous Ezîdî population in South Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. This latest genocide is marked as the 74th against the Ezîdî people in history.
