Clashes erupted today between the Turkish army and the gunmen of the People’s Protection Units YPG, in the area of Gher Mountain, Bulbul district in Efrin countryside, north Aleppo. NSO reporter in Efrin said the...
The First Documented Resettlement of Kurds into Western and Southwestern Anatolia circa 181 BC Dr. Mehrdad Izady – July 1998 During the Seleucid/Macedonian period that followed the conquest of the Persian Achaemenian Empire by Alexander...
Kani Xulam writes a letter to Mr. Ahmadinejad. As a native of Kurdistan, I hate seeing you provide grist for late-night comedians to demean our image! You should be as sick and tired as I...
ALEPPO (ANF) – Al-Nusra and Ahrar Al-Sham gangs continue their heavy aggression on the mainly Kurdish Sheikh Maqsoud (Şêxmeqsûd) neighborhood of Aleppo city over the past 5 days. As part of the heavy artillery aggression...
Just days after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu threatened to pull out from the landmark migrant deal, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker downplayed Ankara’s rhetoric, saying it is doubtful such strident statements will...
Hakan T., a Kurdish civilian, was arrested by a Bursa court on Monday for wearing a T-shirt featuring an independent Kurdistan map while voting in a referendum on a switch to an executive presidency. Hakan...
The Financial Times observed on Jan. 10, “Turkey appears closer to a full-blown currency crisis than at any point since the ruling AK [Justice and Development] party took power in 2002. In the past three...
Israel remains concerned about Iranian influence in southern Syria, despite high level discussions between United States and Israeli security officials in Washington last week. The Israeli delegation that visited Washington last week included Yossi Cohen,...
As an indefinite and irreversible hunger strike, that pro-Kurdish political prisoners launched on February 15, 2017 for an end to the isolation of outlawed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and the human rights violations in prisons...
The Democratic Society Congress (DTK), Free Women’s Movement (TJA) Democratic Regions’ Party (DBP) and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) released a statement calling attention to the risk of a massacre during the curfew and military operation...