Tag Archives: KURDS
What Biden can and cannot do for the Kurds
Yerevan Saeed Biden may have sympathies for the Kurdish cause, but as US president, he will not always act in the Kurdish interest. Many Kurds across the Middle East welcomed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the recent elections in the United States. The former vice president is known to be sympathetic to the […]
Turkey is taking Biden for a testride
“We may come there overnight, all of a sudden,” Turkish president Tayyip Recep Erdogan said on Friday, when asked about a possible upcoming Turkish operation in Sinjar. This is the same phrase he has used before invading North-Syria. “Turkey is always ready to carry out joint operations against the PKK with Iraq but we cannot […]
Corruption in Kobane; the Abdi dynasty
Through the last years, the US government has backed the Syrian democratic forces in their fight against ISIS in North-East Syria. Their battle has led to the establishment of a semi-autonomous region in the country. A leading role in the establishment of ‘Rojava’ is held by general Mazloum Abdi, who is famous throughout the world […]
Iraqi Kurds want American troops at their border because of escalating intra-Kurdish tensions
Iraqi-Kurdish president Masrour Barzani asked Washington on Tuesday afternoon to station their troops on the border with Syria after yet another escalation between the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and the KDP (Kurdish Democratic Party), as reported by al-Monitor. According to the KDP, the Syrian-Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units) tried to infiltrate their territory. This resulted […]
PKK media attacks Beşikçi; Kurdish writer support Beşikçi
PKK Media have taken a completely opposite position to the people, especially Kurdish writers and this due to the statements of the Turkish writer Ismail Beşikçi in support of the Kurdish people and calling the PKK as the enemy of the Kurds. Houshang Ose, a Kurdish writer and journalist, and a former PKK activist, defended […]
Antony Blinken, new secretary of state, wanted Turkey to finish the PKK
Joe Biden will pick Antony Blinken as U.S. secretary of state, a person close to the president-elect’s transition said on Sunday, elevating one of his most seasoned and trusted aides as he prepares to undo President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Blinken is a longtime Biden confidant who served as No. 2 at the State Department […]
Mehmet Bulovali: Every day we see escape stories of PKK members
Mehmet Bulovali, an Iraqi-Kurdish political analyst, who was born and grew up in Kirkuk, an oil-rich city regarded as Jerusalem for the Kurd, says: “People [particularly, the Kurds] have been tired of PKK’s armed campaign. In the past, I would not hear much that people were escaping from the Qandil mountains [the mountain headquarters of […]
Muhammad was only 9 months old, but the PKK killed him
The Turkish media refer to the PKK different attributes. One of these attributes is “child killer”. Interestingly, this attribute is also used for Israel. Last year, the baby of Khani Omar, a Syrian Kurdish refugee who fled to Turkey, was also killed by the PKK in the city of Urfa. They were not safe against […]
Four journalists arrested for revealing Turkish army crimes
Following the news of the arrest of two Kurdish farmers in a village in Van province and their intentional drop from a helicopter by the Turkish military, public opinion in social media reacted widely and Amnesty International called for an independent investigation. This made the record of widespread human rights violations by Turkey against the […]
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. […]