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• "Imrali is a very dark chapter in Western human rights policy" 

  Despite a binding resolution of the Council of Europe, Turkey is not prepared to lift Abdullah Öcalan's isolation. "Imrali is a very dark chapter of human rights policy in the West," says Hamburg-based international law expert Norman Paech.
• Provocation 

  In Southern Kurdistan, the KDP is fulfilling the MIT's mission to provoke an armed conflict with the PKK. All guerrilla areas are affected by this move across the board. The atmosphere can only change if the KDP is made to backpedal.
• Why is the KDP besieging Garê? 

  Democratic mentality and politics are essential for Kurdish politics to solve problems through dialogue, to eliminate internal conflict and to ensure national unity.
• Amed shopkeepers tells of difficulties amid economic crisis  

  Amed shopkeepers and tradesmen tell of the difficulties in meeting ends as economic crisis deepens.
• Babayan: Turkey tries to turn Artsakh conflict into religious war 

  Artsakh President's Advisor Davit Babayan said: "The Turkish authorities and particularly Erdogan have initiated a new round of confrontation in Karabakh."
• "She discovered hidden aspects of herself in the mountains" 

  An internationalist friend remembers his time in the mountains with Şehid (martyr) Sara Dorşin.
• Idlib a wildcard for Turkey to attack northeast Syria 

  Turkey has withdrawn from an observation post in Idlib but keeps the region in its hands as a wildcard for negotiations on an invasion of the autonomous regions of northern and eastern Syria.
• Women in Raqqa celebrate 3 years of freedom 

  With the liberation of their cities from ISIS, women who have regained their leading role in society are working hard to overcome all kinds of obstacles and eliminate the damage created by the gangs.
• Shepherds face the repression of the State 

  Shepherding has become difficult in the mountains and valleys of Kurdistan because of the repression carried out by the state.
• Ovaköy border gate project in Shengal? 

  The Turkish state is trying to implement the Ovaköy Border Gate project, which it prepared to reach Mosul and Kirkuk, by including the KDP and the USA.
• Policies of the KDP try people’s patience! 

  The KDP continues to negotiate with regional powers over Kurdish achievements. Pursuing a "either me or enemy" policy in Kurdistan, KDP continues to harm Kurdish gains and try people’s patience.
• People of Shengal reject agreement between KDP and Baghdad 

  Reactions to the dirty agreement between the central Iraqi government and the South Kurdistan Region Administration on Shengal continue to come through.
• Whose job is the timing in Karabakh war? 

  One way or another, there is a fact that we must underline: Sultan Tayyip Erdogan is walking on the bloody trail of his own history step by step...
• Joining the Democratic Confederalism Leadership 

  From 'National Leader', 'Kurdish People's Leader' to 'Democratic Confederalism Leader'.
• Yazidis criticize the Shengal agreement between KDP and Iraq 

  Feleknas Uca (HDP), Hecî Çelik (NAV-YEK) and Riham Hiço (Autonomous Council of Shengal) criticize the KDP’s agreement with the Iraqi government on the future of Shengal as an "agreement of perpetrators and traitors”.
• Mother Aqide, a leading figure in the women's freedom struggle 

  Aqide Ana (Mother Aqide), was a leading figure in the struggle for women's freedom.
• Humanity is Captive in Imrali! 

  AKP considers Öcalan's Democratic Nation, democratic republic solution as a major obstacle to its 2023 goals. The insistence on Imrali isolation system and the genocide attacks that have developed together with isolation are introduced for this purpose.
• Some 65,000 people live in the most dangerous refugee camp, Hol 

  In the Hol Camp, which is the most dangerous camp in the world as it housed tens of thousands of ISIS families, Syrian families continue to return to their homes. According to the latest data, the camp population is 64,373.
• Protests against the agreement on Shengal increase 

  The agreement was signed on 1 October by the Representative for the Kurdistan Regional Government, Rebar Ahmad Khalid, Minister of Interior and the Representative for the Federal Government, Hameed Raseed Faleeh, Deputy Head of National Security Apparatus
• Atrocities in occupied lands and the UN report 

  Bedran Çiya stated that many war crimes and violations committed by the Turkish state-backed gangs were not reflected in the UN report and said independent investigation committees need to go to the occupied areas and investigate war crimes immediately.
• Lawyer Köklü: In the Imralı system war and peace collide 

  The International Imrali delegation said in its visit to Turkey that ‘Imrali is an example of pressure but also the laboratory of democracy' and this statement exposed the truth, recalls Öcalan's lawyer Serbay Köklü.
• Baghdad and KDP agree on US plan for Shengal 

  At the urging of the US, an agreement has been reached between the South Kurdistan’s ruling party KDP and the central government in Baghdad on the further fate of the Yazidi settlement area Shengal.
• Harutunoyan: Turkey's goal is the annihilation of the Armenians 

  Turkey supports Azerbaijan because it wants to wipe out the Armenians. It is not stopped because the great powers are pursuing their own interests, says Anna Harutunoyan, a Ukrainian journalist living in Armenia.
• Osê: Our goal is to end the occupation 

  Emine Osê, the Co-Presidency Spokesperson of the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria, states that their existence depends on the liberation of the occupied areas and adds, “Our people will return to their land. All our efforts are made for this”
• HBDH:Armenian and Azerbaijani people have no interest in this war 

  "We, as the People’s United Revolutionary Movement, will not forgive any historical or current attacks against our Armenian people and we will call them to account," said the HBDH.