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• No solution to their complaints for 45 years 

  The carbon dioxide gas formed underground after the Çaldıran earthquake has reached a level that threatens the health of the people of the neighbourhood of Beyazıt.
• Eliaçık: Elitism is to live in a palace detached from the people 

  Author İhsan Eliaçık says that real elitism is to live in the palace, to appoint a trustee-rector and not to recognize the elections, adding that it is extremely far from the "victim" identity the AKP has created for 18 years.
• British actress Maxine Peake launches 'letters for Leyla' campaign 

  British actress Maxine Peake described Leyla Guven's fight as one for the whole of humanity as she launched the Peace in Kurdistan “Letters for Leyla” campaign.
• Law protecting women in Iran: A first step, but still a long way to go  

  The Iranian government has passed a bill on 3 January that criminalizes violence against women, including action or behaviour that causes “physical or mental harm” to women. However, the bill falls short of international standards.
• MP Paylan: Ankara is stuck in a spiral of corruption and waste 

  "Ankara is stuck in a spiral of corruption and waste. We need to move the wheel in the other direction," says HDP economic expert and MP Garo Paylan.
• German families: We want to continue the struggle of our martyrs 

  The families of German revolutionaries Jakob Riemer (Şiyar Gabar), Michael Panser (Bager Nujiyan) and Konstantin Gedig (Andok Cotkar), said: "We want to protect the memories of our martyrs and continue their struggle."
• They might cut off our flowers but they can't stop the spring, Gupta 

  Journalist, activist and writer Rahila Gupta spoke about the killing of Sakine Cansız, Leyla Şaylemez and Fidan Doğan.
• Sakine, Fidan and Leyla: The search for justice continues 

  Eight years ago today the murder of Sakine, Fidan and Leyla.
• Ömer Güney's collaborator is still in DITIB 

  Ruhi Semen, the collaborator of Ömer Güney, the hitman of the Paris Massacre, is still active in DITIB, one of the important institutions of the AKP-MHP government in Germany.
• Sara's traces in Rojava: Free Kurdistan and free woman 

  Sakine Cansiz, Sara, left fond memories and marks in every life she touched, also in Rojava, where tens of thousands of women follow on her path today.
• PKK: Paris killings targeted free humanity 

  The Executive Committee of the PKK published a statement on the 8th anniversary of the triple murder of the three Kurdish women revolutionaries in Paris and vowed to expand the resistance everywhere within the campaign "Time for Freedom".
• The 'Ya Star' of the Kurds, Sakine Cansiz 

  There is a lot to be said about Sakine Cansiz. However, what is more important is to understand Sakine Cansiz's fight, to expand it, to struggle the way she did, to reject the male-dominated world, to resist, to be comrade to Leader Apo, to become free.
• British-based Kurdish rights campaigners demand end to arms sales to Turkey 

  Shocking evidence has revealed the extent of Britain’s complicity in Turkey’s dirty war and attempted genocide of Kurds – including potential war crimes, said Peace in Kurdistan Campaign.
• Janet Biehl tells of her involvement in solidarity with Kurds 

  Author and artist Janet Biehl spoke about her involvement in solidarity with the Kurdish Freedom Movement.
• Murad Baloch: Balochistan occupied with Western support 

  The Baloch people have been subjected to torture, massacre, disappearance, rape and annihilation policies by the Pakistani state. Leading figures of the Baloch people are assassinated, people kidnapped, women raped, children disappeared…
• At least 67 kolbars killed in 2020 

  Last year at least 67 kolbars were killed on the border area between Northern and Eastern Kurdistan. 59 of them were victims of extrajudicial executions carried out by security forces in Turkey and Iran.
• The sound of kaval leads to an inner journey 

  Kaval is the indispensable sound of the Shaho region in Rojhilat Kurdistan, especially Hewreman. The melody of the kaval, played by a guerrilla, led to an inner journey.
• YPJ Commander: We are entering 2021 stronger and more determined 

  YPJ General Commander Newroz Ehmed said, "We are entering 2021 with more political and military strength, with a strong determination and will."
• Aldar Xelîl: The occupied regions will be liberated in 2021 

  Aldar Xelîl, calling on the peoples of North and East Syria to strengthen the Autonomous Administration, noted that they will raise the struggle for the liberation of the occupied regions in 2021.
• 2020: A year of Kurdish diplomacy and public relations 

  In mid-March, many European countries went into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Kurdish movement therefore only held many events online.
• 2020 in North-East Syria: Ideological attacks and resistance 

  2020 has been a year of various ideological attacks on the North-East Syrian revolution. The resistance against the attacks targeting the essence of the revolution continued to grow.
• Roboski: A wound not healing 

  The Roboski massacre was carried out on 28 December 2011. It left deep wounds and shaped the victims' relatives lives. Cansel and Muammer Encü speak about life after the massacre.
• Roboski Massacre, a cry for justice 

  Nine years ago today, 34 people were killed in Roboski when Turkish air forces bombed a caravan of mostly under 18 border traders in the northern Kurdish province of Şırnak.
• Emekçi: Isolation can be broken with a democratic understanding 

  Emran Emekçi, one of the lawyers of the Asrın Law Office, which have been unable to meet with their client, Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan since 7 August 2019, evaluated the systematic Imrali isolation and hunger strikes to ANF.
• Bawer Dersim: We advocate an inner-Kurdish dialogue 

  Guerrilla commander Bawer Dersim draws attention to the Kurdish foothold in Turkey's extermination campaign and warns against false calculations: "No one should assume that the PKK can be forced to surrender."