Man storms Pro-Kurdish party office in Turkey, kills womanFriday, 18 June, 2021 , 16:43

reuters.com | June 17, 2021

ANKARA, June 17 (Reuters) - A man stormed a local office of Turkey's main Pro-Kurdish party and shot dead a 20-year-old woman in the western city of Izmir on Thursday, prompting the party to blame a public government crackdown on it which has intensified this year.


  

Iran’s Proxies in Iraq Threaten U.S. With More Sophisticated WeaponsTuesday, 8 June, 2021 , 16:28

nytimes.com | Jane Arraf and | June 4, 2021

Iran-backed militias in Iraq are suspected of carrying out recent drone strikes on sensitive American targets in Iraq, evading U.S. defenses.


  

What happens when Biden and Erdogan meet next week?Tuesday, 8 June, 2021 , 14:56

thenationalnews.com | David Lepeska | June 7, 2021

Joe Biden will depart on Thursday for Europe on his first foreign trip as US president, headed for an anxiously anticipated inaugural summit with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.


  

For Arabs and Muslims, do only Palestinian lives matter?Monday, 7 June, 2021 , 16:11

haaretz.com | Akil Marceau | Jun. 6, 2021

In Ankara, Tehran, Damascus and Baghdad, there are mass rallies for Palestine, but no solidarity for Kurdish liberation from occupation, ethnic cleansing and genocide. Rank hypocrisy rules, and this is why


  

Voices from Afrin: First-hand Accounts of Turkish Crimes Against the Kurds and Policy Proposals From Those AffectedMonday, 31 May, 2021 , 17:13

  

Erdogan's prisonersThursday, 27 May, 2021 , 15:56

43 elected Kurdish mayors are currently imprisoned in Turkish prisons. 18 of them are women. The second wave of imprisonment took place in October 2019, just weeks after local elections in Turkey.


  

Mafia boss’s YouTube claims rattle Turkish governmentWednesday, 26 May, 2021 , 17:58

theguardian.com | By Bethan McKernan | 25 May 2021

Sedat Peker accuses senior government figures of crimes including murder, rape, corruption and drug trafficking


  

Chiefs of Iranian Kurdish Political Parties Endorse a Federal, Democratic System in IranFriday, 21 May, 2021 , 17:41

dckurd.org | May 19, 2021

Joint initiative on Iran’s future by the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) and Program on Human Rights and Peace-building at Columbia University


  

Kurdistan’s Weekly Brief May 18, 2021Friday, 21 May, 2021 , 17:18

dckurd.org | May 18, 2021

A weekly brief of events that occurred in the Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.


  

 UK Kurd elected to Oxford City CouncilTuesday, 11 May, 2021 , 17:08

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Evin Abrishami, a Labour Party candidate in Donnington, was elected in the 2021 Oxford City Council election that was held on Thursday in the southern English city.