NEWS

Latest News

• Mosul tribes respond to those asking Turkey to strike Shengal 

  Arab tribal leaders in Mosul responded to Sheikh Muzahim al-Huwaidi, asserting that he represented only himself.
• US and Egypt agree to continue cooperation in Syria, Yemen, Libya 

  The two leaders discussed the latest developments in the Middle East and the joint efforts to restore stability in the region in order to reach political solutions to the current crises, especially in Libya, Syria and Yemen.
• Toil and trouble in Idlib: Turkey’s gangs fight each other 

  As the Turkish state goes back and forth between Washington and Moscow to attack Manbij in order to push Idlib off the agenda, the gangs they guarantee in Idlib are at each others’ throats.
• Day 16 of the hunger strike in Strasbourg 

  The hunger strike continues in the Democratic Kurdish Community Center in Strasbourg.
• US President said withdrawal from Syria will take four months 

  There are still important events to take place in the next few days: one is the trilateral meeting among Russia, Turkey and Iran which should happened before the bilateral meeting between Turkey and the United States.
• Kurds in Lebanon go on hunger strike against isolation 

  Kurds in Lebanon have gone on a hunger strike against the Imrali isolation.
• Kick off for March 31 local elections in Turkey 

  The March 31 local elections campaign period is starting in Turkey.
• Chief Pentagon spokeswoman announces resignation 

  US Department of Defense spokeswoman Dana White announced that she has resigned from the Trump administration.
• HDP MP Abdullah Zeydan goes on hunger strike against isolation 

  HDP MP Abdullah Zeydan, imprisoned in the Edirne Prison, has also started a hunger strike protesting the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• MLKP prisoners to join the hunger strike action for Öcalan 

  MLKP prisoners will start hunger strike on 3-8 January in solidarity with the growing hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan.
• Leyla Güven: 2019 will be a year of resistance and freedom 

  "From 2019, our target will be bigger than our expectations. I wish everyone, especially the insurgents a new year, and it would not be a year of hunger, misery, unemployment, child abuse, women's assault, arrests, deaths."
• Strasbourg hunger strikers: We'll step up the resistance in 2019 

  The hunger strike carried out in Strasbourg began the new year with words of resistance.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers call on Europeans to join the struggle 

  In Strasbourg, activists, who have been on hunger strike for 15 days, called on Europeans to share important values ​​with Kurds through a French newspaper.
• KONGRA-GEL calls for increased struggle in 2019 

  "As was proved during the Kobanê resistance, we believe that international solidarity will be very effective in breaking Imralı isolation and in the destruction of fascism."
• DTK: 2019 will be a year of resistance and achievements 

  “The resistance, based in Rojava against the genocidal occupation and elimination policies carried out by regional and international forces has been the light and inspiration for the future of the whole Middle East.”
• Strasbourg strikers: 2019 will be the year for Ocalan’s freedom 

  “We call on our people to raise the resistance and struggle with the motto “Remove the isolation, defeat fascism and liberate Kurdistan. 2019 will be the year for Leader Apo’s freedom and Kurdistan’s liberation,” said the hunger strikers in Strasbourg.
• US Senator: Trump is re-evaluating withdrawal from Syria 

  Stating that Trump is determined to prevent a conflict between Turkey and YPG, he has said, "If we leave now, the Kurds will get in a fight with Turkey, they could get slaughtered. Who would help you in the future?"
• Iraq puts over 600 ISIS members on trial in one year 

  Iraqi Supreme Council of Judges issued a statement and announced that over 600 individuals, most of them women, were tried for membership to ISIS in one year.
• HDP holds preliminary elections to select candidates 

  Preliminary elections ensure candidates are the true expression of party delegates.
• Journalist Houda-Pepin: We betrayed the Kurds 

  In an article in the Journal de Montreal, journalist Fatima Houda-Pepin said “we have betrayed the Kurds”.
• 91 prisoners are on indefinite hunger strike in 23 jails 

  Indefinite hunger strikes are being carried out in 23 prisons by 91 prisoners.
• German activists in solidarity with Rojava 

  Remarking that people still die by German weapons all around the world, including Rojava, activists demanded an end to the production and delivery of weapons and the cooperation with the Turkish regime.
• Right government for the autonomous region of Andalusia 

  The change of Government in Andalusia has much more to do with the existential crisis that the Spanish State is going through, than with the concrete electoral proposals of the parties present in that region.
• Raids and detention in Adana and Amed 

  AKP regime's political genocide operations continue.
• Kurdish MPs in Iran call on the UN to act against Turkey’s crimes 

  The Kurdish MPs condemned Turkey's against the Kurds with a green light from the Western and Eastern superpowers and called on the UN and human rights advocates to stop these crimes and the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.