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Friend or Foe? Group on terror list details US military meeting
Matthew Petti and Hadeel Oueiss Cemil Bayik has a $4 million U.S. counterterrorism bounty on his head. But the Kurdish guerrilla leader says his forces have been meeting with U.S. troops — and he’s ready to make amends. Bayik is a founding member and half of the two-person committee leading the Kurdistan Workers Party, usually […]
The New Kurdish Right
An emerging style of right-wing politics among Turkey’s Kurds defines itself in opposition to both the Turkish state and the PKK’s left-liberation mythos. It could upend the country’s politics Müjge Küçükkeleş / Selim Koru In Turkey, the most recent flashpoint between the Erdoğan government and the opposition has been Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, one of […]
A new conspiracy targeting Sinjar
Once more, it seems the Yezidi-populated area Sinjar is under imminent threat – as it has been for quite a while. Sinjar has become a thorn in Erdogan’s eye, as the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) has been operating there freely. Yet, this time, the threat seems larger than a sole Turkish invasion of PKK-controlled territory. […]
US and SDF join forces to steal Syria’s oil
By Jeremy Salt There’s hardly anything new in history about the powerful exploiting the weak, so all that sticks out about the theft of Syria’s oil as orchestrated by the US government is its brazen nature. “We’re keeping the oil,” Donald Trump said in 2019. “I’ve always said that. We want to keep the oil. […]
Arrests wave against the PKK in France!
In France, seven of the people who were arrested in an operation against the PKK / KCK and brought to court on charges of “financing of terrorism” and “organized extortion in connection with a terrorist organization” were arrested. ۱۳ PEOPLE WERE DETENTED ۱۳ people were arrested in the operations carried out by the French police […]
The Kurds’ Choices: “No friends but the mountains…and certainly not Israel.”
First published on 19/02/2021 by Elijah J Magnier Republished with approval of the author Many states have used the Kurds (who maintain the same language and cross-border relationships with other Kurdish tribes in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey) throughout modern history –– as a weapon against various Middle Eastern countries. This continues to be the case, especially […]
High prison sentences demanded in PKK trial in Stuttgart
The public prosecutor’s office has demanded long prison sentences for the five Kurdish defendants in the PKK trial in Stuttgart-Stammheim. Veysel S. is to remain in prison for five years and four months as an alleged leading member of the terrorist organization PKK. Almost two years after the start of the trial at the Stuttgart-Stammheim […]
Ocalan had a phone call with his brother
Abdullah Ocalan, jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has spoken on the phone with his brother for a “short” time after nearly a year of no contact, according to a statement from his lawyers. The news follows recent rumours that Ocalan had died in jail. Without naming his brother, Asrin Law Office, which […]
Human Rights Watch urges Turkey not to expel pro-Kurdish parliamentarian
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Turkey not to remove a pro-Kurdish deputy from his seat in parliament. It’s expected that the Turkish government will strip Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu of his parliamentary status on Wednesday and jail him. Gergerlioglu, a member of parliament for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) representing Kocaeli province in western […]
“Greater Kurdistan” an impossible dream: KRG representative
By Mohammad Mazhari TEHRAN – Describing the “Greater Kurdistan” idea as impossible, the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) representative in Tehran emphasizes that this idea is like a far-fetched dream. “The map of “Greater Kurdistan” may be the desire of some Kurdish parties, but putting it into practice and unification of all Kurds is impossible […]