Tag Archives: Turkey
Turkey bombs Makhmour camp
Makhmur Refugee Camp, which was founded in 1998, lies in the Makhmour district of North Iraq. It hosts about 12,000 Kurdish pro-PKK refugees, who fled the civil war between the PKK and the Turkish state in the 1990s. Reportedly, several Iranian families with PKK ties have been tricked and moved to Makhmour Camp in the […]
Barzani-Turkish ties reconfirmed: Peshmerga Roj fighting in Libya
Peshmerga Roj is a KDP-backed militia that is formed and trained in KDP areas of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. At its formation, it was meant to be a force that could counter the YPG in North-Syria. It was made up from Syrian Kurdish refugees and PKK defects that had surrendered themselves to KDP in […]
Havoc in Afrin; an analysis
Two years ago, during January 2018, Turkey threatened to launch a major operation in northwestern Syria’s Afrin region. Eventually Turkey did launch the operation, leading to tens of thousands fleeing the Kurdish area. Syrian rebels, some of them linked to religious extremists, vow to defeat the mostly Kurdish fighters who have been working with the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The dire fate of Syrian mercenaries in Libya
On January 2, 2020, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey passed a one year mandate in order to deploy troops in Libya. On 5 January, Turkey started to deploy troops in Libya. Engaged in two wars simultaneously in Syria and Libya, Turkey appears far from achieving its stated objectives on both fronts. The Syrian battlefield […]
Idlib; Turkish hidden Agenda
Berwari, a Kurdish analyst in Iraqi Kurdistan, says “Turkey has been claiming that it’s involvement in Syria particularly in Idlib province is for humanitarian reasons, to protect people from being killed by Assad’s military force, and to avoid refugee crisis at it’s door.” The writer continues as saying “Ultimately, Turkey says it’s humanitarian mission in Syria […]
Violence against refugees; dead and injured
People are always the main victims of violence and conflict. This has been the case since the beginning of the Syrian crisis. The Syrian people have fled to Turkey, the Kurdistan Regional Government, Jordan, Lebanon and many others to Western countries. Their fate is tied to the political games of the interventionist countries in Syria. […]
US warns YPG on Idlib
The United States have warned the People’s Defense Units (YPG) – the PKK’s armed wing in Syrian Kurdistan – that it will not protect it against Turkish attacks if YPG intervenes in the Idlib war. Murad Yetkin, a journalist from Turkey’s Hurrayat journal, writes about the Syrian Army’s war Idlib saying as the US asked […]
Turkey: role of Kurdish language in earthquake
An earthquake hit Turkey in the early days of the year that killed and injured hundreds. Rescue forces have taken various steps to carry out their duties, including trying to get the living off the rubble as quickly as possible. Since Xarpet and Malatya – quake-stricken areas – are Kurdish, so there is the issue […]