In light of the recent violence in Turkey, particularly the Turkish state’s assault on the mostly Kurdish cities and towns in the southeast, the Armenian Weekly spoke with Abdullah Demirbaş, the former mayor of Diyarbakir’s...
In April 2015 the centenary of the genocide was marked in Turkey by a burgeoning civil society movement, that has been bravely engaged in these issues for more than a decade. Since then the situation...
With specially selected groups under the guise of “aiding refugees”, the AKP regime wants to change the demographic structure in North Kurdistan and turn the region into a military barracks. There are reports that hundreds...
We’re not joking: Turkey has become so crazy that it might require Russia and the U.S. to team up in northern Syria. Actually, we suspect there is already a high level of cooperation that is not being...
Lt. Col. Ahmad Ahmad Qahvechi, former commander of the Diar Bakr garrison has said: “ISIL forces had seen training before the start of the civil war in Syria and Iraq at the secret Turkish army...
“The United States, Turkey along with local forces, civilian forces, the FSA [Free Syrian Army] and other militias… they are at the forefront while we are at the back,” Yıldırım told reporters at the conference...
Turkish state brutality in Kurdistan never been shown on any TV outlets because AKP government does not want it to be seen. ...
As a Kurd, you can never run from your identity, because your identity is essentially political and the level of your political consciousness acts as a self-defense as the only way to secure your survival...
The Republican Peoples Party says it is filing objections involving 2.5 million votes. If only one-fifth of that total changes, the final result will change as well. Erdogan may claim victory, but Turkey is dangerously...
Even with his new powers, Erdogan will still have to address the Kurdish issue, a possible quagmire in Syria, tensions with the West and a frail economy. He will have to think hard about why...