Category: Kurdish Question
KURDISH journalist Beritan Canozer has hit out after saying she was “unlawfully detained” for four days in Turkey last week after covering a demonstration held last November opposing violence against women. She spoke to the ...
KOMALA Party of Iranian Kurdistan deputy leader Siamak Modarresi urged the world not to forget about the plight of the Kurds in Iran in an exclusive interview with the Morning Star on Thursday evening. Speaking from ...
The first hearing in the trial of Turkish journalist Melis Alphan, who faces a prison sentence of up to seven-and-a-half years on terror charges for posting a Nevruz photo in 2015, was held at a ...
As decades-old battle intensifies, civilians count cost in lives and livelihoods It took 10 days to find Muhsin Speri’s body. The 64-year-old had left his town in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan along with friends ...
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Hüda Kaya has called on the opposition parties to raise their voices against the arrest of Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, whose detention process saw mistreatment by police and human rights violations. ...
Former Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, who heads the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), has slammed the government for reviving the Kurdish issue and bringing back the denial policy of the Kurdish language. ...
A journalist was sentenced to 15 months in prison on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in the first hearing of her trial at a high criminal court in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, Turkish Minute reported. ...
Members of Saturday Mothers gather holding pictures of disappeared relatives on March 25, 2021 in front of the Caglayan courthouse before their trial in Istanbul. (Photo by Ozan KOSE / AFP) An İstanbul court has ...
Iranian dissidents accused the Islamic Republic of Iran’s National Olympic Committee chairman, Seyed Reza Salehi, of killing Kurdish and Azerbaijani political prisoners via torture while he served as an intelligence officer. “Is the Olympics aware ...
The Kurdish problem in the Middle East cannot be put off anymore as it is fast becoming the key issue determining the fate of the region in the near future. The Kurds who live in ...