Hosted by Hywel Williams, MP for Plaid Cymru, and sponsored by Peace in Kurdistan campaign, the meeting took place on 27 November in Westminster. It was addressed by barristers Margaret Owen OBE, Bronwen Jones and Melanie Gingell, who took part the observer delegation...
On 3 December 2012, co-president of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD), Mr Saleh Muslim, briefed a packed room in Westminster on the latest developments in Syria and the role and objectives of the Kurds in relation to the ongoing conflict. The meeting titled...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says a record 232 journalists are currently imprisoned around the world, with Turkey being the worst offender. In a report released December 11, the U.S.-based media watchdog says 49 journalists are behind bars in Turkey...
The Kurds constitute one of the world’s largest populations without a nation state of their own. This great injustice is the root cause of the abuses and discrimination to which Kurds are still subjected to at the present day. This occurs despite the fact...
As Turkey’s biggest Kurdish-majority city and province, Diyarbakir is critical to any examination of the country’s Kurdish problem and of the insurgent PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party). The armed conflict has deteriorated in the past year and a half to...
1. School fire burnt 36 female minor students XANE, — 36 Female children of class four in primary school were burnt when fire sparked in a school in Shinawe village in Xane (Piranshar) city and they were hospitalized consequently. Fire sparked in a classroom...
