Category: Report
Syrian Human Rights Watch: SDF continues arbitrary arrests
In its latest report on the latest developments on human rights in Syria, the Syrian Human Rights Watch criticizes various groups, forces and factions in the country, including the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and accuses it of arbitrary arrests. In its report, this organization writes that SDF arrests the people en masse, especially in Arab […]
HRW condemns Turkey for violating the Kurdish rights
HRW urged Turkish authorities to investigate the case of a Kurdish man who died the day before after being detained earlier by government security forces and loaded into a helicopter before it took flight in Van. The two men were thrown out of a helicopter, as they were detained and accused of aiding the PKK. […]
Turkey banned the Kurdish language in social media, too
Turkey’s anti-Kurdish policy is taking on new dimensions every day. While the Kurdish language has been officially banned in Turkey for nearly a century, and even Kurdish politicians have been and continue to be indifferent to it, Turkey is imposing more and more restrictions on the Kurdish language. Qars Governor Turker Okuz dissolved the city […]
Trump-PKK Cooperation on the villages of Syrian Kurdistan
Prior to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) cooperation with the United States in Syria, which led to its armed branch, the YPG, practically turn into US infantry, there was no serious threat to the Kurdish people in Syria. But with the beginning of this cooperation and the idea of the PKK supposing that the United […]
Kurdish singer: Turkish gendarmerie warned me not to sing a Kurdish song, otherwise…
Jasim Bashboga, a Kurdish singer from the Tatvan region of Turkey’s Bitlis province, known as Jasim the Singer, announced that the gendarmerie had summoned him and officially warned him that he had no right to sing in Kurdish. The singer added: “I was taken to a room in the gendarmerie where it was written” MIT/Turkish […]
Media Ethics in Iraqi Kurdistan
Yesterday, viewers of Rudaw News Channel could watch a program, in which a 10-year-old girl was invited to describe the trauma she has experienced. This young girl, who told her story on live TV, had been raped by six different men over the last two years. The way this program was shown, actually shows us […]
PYD-ENKS unification talks continue
According to top PYD politician Xelil Aldar, the PYD-ENKS talks have reached a new level after US ambassador James Jeffrey’s visit last week. In a media statement he has released information on agreements made between the two rival parties. A new body will be established that will hold 40 seats. 16 seats for PYD-linked parties, […]
Panic in North-East Syria: Russia threatens to leave Til Temir
For months we have witnessed the cat-and-mouse game Russia and the USA have been playing in North-East Syria. Last year, when the USA left the area and the Kurdish people to Turkish invasion, it was the Syrian army and the Russian-Turkish peace deal that saved the Kurds. The USA, feeling threatened by this deal, decided […]
Turkey imprisons Kurdish clergyman for speaking Kurdish
The book “Moloud” (Birth letter) by prominent Kurdish poet and cleric Mullah Hassan Bateyi was written in 19 chapters and in the form of music and poetry n 15th century, it is in praise of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Since then, moloud-reading ceremonies, especially at the birthday of the Great Prophet of Islam, have been […]
Turkey kills 3 PKK members in Sinjar
A Turkish drone on Sunday night targeted a vehicle in the Yezidi region of Sinjar, Iraqi military said in a statement. PKK has not released a statement yet. The vehicle, reportedly belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK was hit near the Sharaf al-Din shrine, Iraq’s Security Media Cell said in an official statement. According […]