Peace in Kurdistan Campaign today received a new batch of postcards ready to be sent by YOU to Theresa May at the Home Office. The postcard was specially designed and includes text on the back that urges her to delist the PKK from the list of terrorist organisations....
London, 30 July 2014 The continued detention of three journalists, arrested in Iran last week, is yet another sign of increased pressure on the media and restrictions on free speech in the Islamic Republic of Iran, PEN international, the world association of writers...
Kurdish rebels are establishing self-rule in war-torn Syria, resembling the Zapatista experience and providing a democratic alternative for the region. With the rise of jihadist groups in the Middle East, I find myself troubled with the question of how the politics of...
The UNHCR is to set up new refugee camps to accommodate the thousands of mainly Turkmen and Arab residents fleeing the savagery of ISIS gangs in the cities of Mosul and Tal Afar to the Federal Kurdistan Region. While there was a quiet Eid at the Khazir camp 25...
Following the mass exodus of Christians and Shabak and Yezidi Kurds from Mosul after it was captured by ISIS, faith groups living in Baghdad are now under threat. Observers are concerned that due to the large number of Christians who have fled to the Federal Kurdistan...
Christians who were allowed to leave Mosul by ISIS gangs on the condition that they left all their property behind, have migrated en masse to the cities of Hewler (Erbil) and Duhok in South Kurdistan. There is concern that if things continue in this way there will...
