Ongoing small-scale attacks against the autonomous Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods of Aleppo in Northern Syria have taken on a new and lethal dimension, reports Sarah Glynn.
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In the 1990s, the Turkish state exercised a rule of terror in the Kurdish south-east. Villages were erased, people were disappeared and many activists were sent to jail for “life”. One of those since released, Selahattin Mete, spoke to Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg.
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The Kurdish community called a snap action to demand freedom for imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. Coral Wynter reports.
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Abdullah Zeydan, of the pro-Kurdish leftist Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party, was elected in a landslide as co-mayor of the Turkish city of Van last year, before the Turkish government suspended him and replaced him with a government-appointed trustee. He spoke to Green Left’s Sarah Glynn in Strasbourg.
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When it comes to bringing Turkey to account for its attack on democracy and human rights abuses against Kurds, the Council of Europe has been kicking the ball into the long grass, yet advocates continue to lobby its politicians and bureaucrats and organise demonstrations outside its gates, writes Sarah Glynn.
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For most of the news media, the United States and Israel’s war on Iran has fallen off the agenda, but the story is far from over, and has many prequels, writes Sarah Glynn.
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Twenty to thirty Kurdistan Workers’ Party guerillas will come down from the mountains and destroy their weapons in front of witnesses from around the world, in a symbolic act of the PKK’s commitment to its disarmament and dissolution, reports Sarah Glynn.
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Sarah Glynn looks at the brutal crackdown on Kurds and other minorities and activists since the Israeli-United States bombings of Iran.
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Salih Muslim spoke to Green Left’s Peter Boyle about the significance for Rojava of imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s call for the disarmament and dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
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Green Left’s Peter Boyle spoke to Ebru Günay after she visited Australia with a Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party delegation from Turkey.
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Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom is an absolute necessity and would be a historic step, writes Devriş Çimen.
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A deputy of the People’s Equality and Democracy Party has made public in the Turkish parliament the details of his meeting with imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, reports Medya News.