17 June 2021 | Statement by our Foreign Affairs Spokespersons Feleknas Uca & Hişyar Özsoy:

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.

nytimes.com | By Jane Arraf and Eric Schmitt | 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.

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.

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

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.

theguardian.com | By Bethan McKernan | 25 May 2021

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

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

dckurd.org | May 18, 2021

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