Category: Report
Member of banned Turkish music group dies after hunger strike
A member of a popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey has died on the 288th day of a hunger strike. The singer and a colleague had started the strike while imprisoned to protest at the government’s treatment of their band, according to a post on the group’s Twitter account. Grup Yorum, known […]
Revolt against SDF in Deir ez-Zor countryside
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, SDF has imposed a curfew in all of its territory, including the Arab region Deir ez-Zor, a region where they are reportedly losing its popularity very quickly and the threat of an ISIS resurgence looms. Abdulrahman al-Ahmad, a local correspondent, told us about the clashes that happened in the […]
Fire in refugee camp kills 4 children
A horrific fire that occurred in a tent in Newroz refugee camp, in the countryside of Derik, North-East Syria, has killed four children, one adult, and injured 11 others severely, all from one family. A source inside the camp stated that during the preparation of food, an electric pressure cooker exploded, which was followed by […]
PKK members keep defying borders in Sinjar: COVID-19 disaster awaits
Iraq’s conflict-destructed Sinjar region may become a “disaster area” if the COVID-19 pandemic spreads there, health and aid workers warned. The region in northern Iraq has struggled to recover from a genocide in 2014, when the Islamic State group swept across the area and massacred thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority. The intervention […]
Funeral leads to 32 COVID-19 cases in Erbil
Even though the Kurdistan Region Government has imposed a heavy lockdown on its people – which is longer than 20 days now – it seems not very successful at actually enforcing this lockdown. One of the first things that was forbidden, were group gatherings. Despite instructions on group gatherings, a grieving family has held a […]
No masks for American nurses
A COVID-19 unit nurse says she resigned Monday after being told she couldn’t wear an N95 mask. She warns, “nurses are not being protected.” Stories about medical staff without proper protection are getting more and more common in the US, as the COVID-19 virus spreads through the country. The Trump-administration, has spent the last two […]
Why SDF calls for humanitarian truce?
In North-East Syria, attacks by ISIS and unidentified groups are continuing. In March 2019, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the defeat of ISIS in Syria after the Battle of Baghouz Fawqani, near the Iraqi border. In Iraq, the government in Baghdad declared victory over the Sunni Islamist group at the end of 2017. […]
Real reason for Hasaka water cut-off
Media outlets of the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria keep campaigning against Turkey, arguing about recent water cut-offs, leaving 460.000+ people without water in the time of a pandemic. Though I strongly agree that leaving people without water is a crime against human rights – especially at the time of a pandemic sweeping across the […]
Duran Kalkan’s COVID-19 conspiracy theory
The last few months, we have seen many different theories on the COVID-19 pandemic and its origins appear in the media. We have seen different countries blaming each other, rumours about different animal origins and some other quite funny stories. One of the PKK’s leading cadres – Duran Kalkan – turns out to be a […]
Goebbels-like Accusations by PJAK
Statement by the Executive Council of the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch on the Accusations by PJAK Militants Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German nationalist politician who served as Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945. Big lie is a technique in propaganda. The technique was first used by the Jews. […]