Date for Global Rally: 1 November 2015 The determined resistance of the Kurdish men and women in this strategic border region of Rojava (Western Kurdistan in Syria) inspired people and governments all over the world when they successfully repelled the siege of their...
On October 10th, a Peace Rally that brought together many civil society organizations, revolutionary unions, and progressive and democratic parties, among them HDP, was the target of a horrendous attack. Unfortunately, at least 128 of our fellow citizens were murdered...
It has been reported that at least 35 people have lost their lives and many more have been injured in the attack. Paramilitary forces have attacked a demonstration organised by non-governmental organisation and trade unions such as KESK, DISK, TMMOB and TTB in Ankara,...
Published by Ekurd Daily on Posted on September 22, 2015 WASHINGTON,— The United States does not consider the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syrian Kurdistan, a terrorist organization, U.S. State...
Situation in Turkey’s Kurdish regions escalates further The southeast of Turkey has not come to rest since September 4: There is a curfew in Cizîra Botan (Cizre), and there are snipers on minarets and other high towers in the city. Several other villages in the...
Co-mayors of Sur and Silvan districts from the Democratic Regoins Party (DBP – Demokratik Bölgeler Partisi) were taken into custody during a simultaneous police raid in Diyarbakır. Co-mayors of Sur Seyid Narin and Fatma Şık Barut; Co-mayors of Silvan Yüksel Bodakçı...