INDEX
News:
• Saleh Muslim calls on world public to break down the wall of silence
• Arınç: All authority regarding process is with PM
• DBP: Process of resolution must be intensified
• UN: At least 1,420 killed in Iraq in August
• Thousands met for peace in Istanbul
• 15 Yezidi Kurds massacred in Jaddala village
• YPG announces outcome of Jazaa operation
• Yezidi Kurds will live in communes, not camps
• First New University To Open In Rojava
• Kışanak: ISIS has caused a great trauma
• KCK marks the World Peace Day
• SOHR: ISIS distributed 300 Yezidi women to its fighters in Syria
• YPJ fighters demolishing taboos
• YNK women visit YJA STAR guerrillas in Kirkuk
• The terrorist group of ISIS reached in East Kurdistan
• Iran has terrorized the Kurds alliance
• Kurdistan Communities of Women announced
• Attempts to annul co-mayoral system
• Horrific confessions of ISIS members
• UDB urges the removal of PKK from the list of terrorist organizations
• Yezidi refugees in Dargeçit: The PKK saved us
• Elderly Yezidis brutally massacred in the tomb
• UN Commission: ISIS committed war crimes in Aleppo and Ar-Raqqah
• Swiss MP: ISIS will be defeated by PKK
• Remzi Kartal: ISIS policy didn’t work out
• UN: Over 191,000 people killed in Syrian civil war
• YPG and FSA to mount joint defence of Aleppo
Campaigns, Analysis and Special Dossiers:
• Campaign: KNK campaign calls for urgent action from OIC against ISIS
• Campaign: Petition for the removal of PKK from the list of terrorist organizations
• Analysis: Understanding Davutoğlu – Haluk Gerger
• Analysis: Daily Mail: Turkish border a ‘Gateway to Jihad’
• Analysis: A new kind of freedom born in terror
• Analysis: Şengal: Islamic State, Kurdish (In)dependence, Western hypocrisy, and the failure of the nation-state paradigm
• Special Dossier: ISIS attacks and Kurdish Resistance in Kurdistan
• Special Dossier: Genocide against Ezidi Kurds
• Special Dossier: Terror organization Islamic State (IS/ISIS): Contemporary barbarians on war on women and the peoples
News:
Saleh Muslim calls on world public to break down the wall of silence
Co-chairman of the PYD (Democratic Union Party), Mohamed Saleh Muslim, has released a letter on behalf of the people who live in the cantons of Rojava to mark the World Peace Day, September 1.
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Arınç: All authority regarding process is with PM
Turkish government spokesperson Bülent Arınç made a statement following a cabinet meeting, saying all authority regarding the process of resolution had been concentrated with the Prime Minister.
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DBP: Process of resolution must be intensified
DBP (Party of Democratic Regions – formerly BDP) co-president Kamuran Yüksek has announced the conclusions reached at a three-day meeting of the party assembly and co-mayors.
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UN: At least 1,420 killed in Iraq in August
A total of at least 1,420 Iraqis were killed and another 1,370 were injured in acts of terrorism and violence in August , according to casualty figures released today by UNAMI (United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq).
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Thousands met for peace in Istanbul
Thousands of people protested a ban on a World Peace Day demonstration in Istanbul yesterday on the grounds that it would disrupt the traffic. Thousands of people gathered in Kadıköy to call for peace on 1 September, World Peace Day. Speaking on behalf of the rally organising committee, Dr. Deniz Mardin from the Istanbul branch of TTB, said: “Imperialist power groups are using ISIS for their own purposes.”
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15 Yezidi Kurds massacred in Jaddala village
It came out that ISIS gangs committed yet another massacre in Cidalê (Jaddala), one of the villages located in the skirts of the Sinjar mountains where a number of elderly people from the Yezidi community continue to remain despite the ongoing ISIS attacks for a month now, refusing to flee the gangs and choosing to “welcome the death” in their lands.
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YPG announces outcome of Jazaa operation
The YPG (People’s Protection Units) Press Centre has issued details of a comprehensive operation it carried out on 30 August on ISIS gang positions in Jazaa, where there has been fierce fighting since 19 August.
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Yezidi Kurds will live in communes, not camps
In the city of Batman in North Kurdistan rehabilitation centres for 3,000 Yezidi Kurds fleeing ISIS attacks in Sinjar are being set up.
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First New University To Open In Rojava
A new university based on an alternative education model will open in Rojava, according to a report from ANHA carried by Özgür Gündem. The university – the Mesopotamian Social Sciences Academy – will be located in Qamişlo in the Cizîrê Canton of Rojava and begin to hold classes this September.
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Kışanak: ISIS has caused a great trauma
Amed Metropolitan Municipal co-mayor Gültan Kışanak spoke at a meeting in Izmir, pointing out that people in the west of Turkey are not aware of the danger of ISIS, saying: “we hadn’t realised until last week how big the threat posed by ISIS is. People in the region are experiencing severe trauma.”
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KCK marks the World Peace Day
Releasing a statement to mark September 1World Peace Day, Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-Presidency said an honorable and true peace will be attained through nobel struggles.
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SOHR: ISIS distributed 300 Yezidi women to its fighters in Syria
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Islamic State sell al Sabaya (women captured in war) in the slave market with a price of 1000$.
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YPJ fighters demolishing taboos
Women have played a key role in the defence of Kobanê after the revolution, and have created a revolutionary transformation in social attitudes. YPJ (Women’s Protection Units) fighters in the forefront of the defence of Kobanê are inflicting heavy blows on ISIS gangs and also demolishing taboos based on male domination.
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YNK women visit YJA STAR guerrillas in Kirkuk
A delegation of women from Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) paid a solidarity visit to the YJA STAR units that were despatched to Kirkuk to defend the city against attacks of the Islamic State gangs.
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The terrorist group of ISIS reached in East Kurdistan
( Rojhelat.info ) – Activity for the terrorist group of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has increased in Rojhelat (East Kurdistan). Over the last few days occurred clashes between the Iranian Revolutionary Guard “Sepah-e Pasdaran” and IS gunmen in village of Mawane (Silwane functions of Urmiye) also city of Diwandare (from Sine province).
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Iran has terrorized the Kurds alliance
( Rojhelat.info ) – While the Middle East and the heart of Kurdistan have undergone major changes, global hegemonic forces are trying to replace their optimal designs in the region.
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Kurdistan Communities of Women announced
The Kurdish women’s movement, the Union of Free Women (YJA), has changed its name to the Kurdistan Communities of Women (Komalen Jinen Kurdistan, KJK) in order to reorganize itself under a confederal system.
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Attempts to annul co-mayoral system
In around 90 provinces and districts where the BDP won the municipal elections on 30 March, Governors’ offices have applied to the courts for the annulment of the co-mayoral system adopted by the party.
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Horrific confessions of ISIS members
A documentary broadcast on STERK TV last night entitled ‘Gang of Degenerates’ contained the horrific confessions of more than 20 members of ISIS regarding the inhuman methods of the organisation. The ISIS operatives were captured by Rojava public security and YPG forces.
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UDB urges the removal of PKK from the list of terrorist organizations
The Breton Democratic Union (Union Démocratique Bretonne, UDB) has urged the European Union to remove the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from the list of “terrorist” organizations.
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Yezidi refugees in Dargeçit: The PKK saved us
A group of Yezidi Kurds fleeing the savagery of ISIS gangs in Sinjar region have arrived the Dargeçit district of Mardin.
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UN Commission: ISIS committed war crimes in Aleppo and Ar-Raqqah
Mass atrocities by Government forces and non-State armed groups continue to take place in Syria, causing immeasurable suffering to civilians, according to a UN report released today. The report stated that the continuous influx of foreign fighters and the success of extremist groups
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Swiss MP: ISIS will be defeated by PKK
Swiss Socialist Party Federal MP Beat Jans assessed ISIS attacks on Rojava and South Kurdistan for ANF. Jans said the struggle of the Kurdish Freedom Movement had disrupted all the plans of the forces supporting ISIS for their own economic interests, adding that the European Union (EU) had been wrong to delay taking action. Jans said “ISIS will definitely be defeated by the PKK.”
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Kartal: ISIS policy didn’t work out
A public meeting was held in the Amsterdam city of Netherlands on Monday and attended by dozens of people. The meeting started with a video speech of KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council President Cemil Bayık and continued with a statement of Kongra-Gel President Remzi Kartal who evaluated recent developments in the Middle East, Kurdistan and Turkey.
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UN: Over 191,000 people killed in Syrian civil war
An updated analysis carried out by data specialists on behalf of the UN Human Rights Office has led to the compilation of a list of 191,369 cases of individuals reported killed in Syria between March 2011 and the end of April 2014, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Friday.
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YPG and FSA to mount joint defence of Aleppo
As fighting between opposition forces and ISIS gangs intensifies in Syria, the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and Free Syrian Army (FSA) have met and agreed to form a ‘joint defence and resistance front’.
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Campaigns and Special Dossiers:
KNK campaign calls for urgent action from OIC against ISIS
Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Women’s Commission has launched an open letter campaign calling on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to take urgent action for the release of all the Yezidi and Kakei Kurdish, Shia Turkmen, Arab and Christian Syriac women and girls recently abducted by ISIS and put on sale at slave markets.
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Petition for the removal of PKK from the list of terrorist organizations
An online petition campaign to U.S. Obama administration has been launched asking the removal of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from the list of international terrorist organizations. The petition can be signed at
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Understanding Davutoğlu – Haluk Gerger
By Haluk Gerger: Ahmet Davutoğlu is the new Turkish Prime Minister. He is known for his Islamist tendencies and his enthusiasm for ‘neo-Ottomanism’, which he calls ‘strategic depth’.
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Daily Mail: Turkish border a ‘Gateway to Jihad’
The ‘Gateway to Jihad’ is along an open stretch of rugged Turkish border used by estimated 20 foreign recruits to cross into Syria and Iraq every day, wrote Sam Greenhill for the British Daily Mail in his colomn, attributing his claims to the observations he made in the border town of Reyhanlı in Turkey.
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A new kind of freedom born in terror
By Yvo Fitzherbert – The revolution which has been taking place across Rojava (literally, ‘Western Kurdistan’), where three cantons were set up in January this year, has a grassroots democratic model.
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Şengal: Islamic State, Kurdish (In)dependence, Western hypocrisy, and the failure of the nation-state paradigm
By Dilar Dirik – One day, the world woke up and suddenly realized that a religious community called the Yezîdîs exist and that a radical jihadist group called the Islamic State, IS, (formerly known as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) is slaughtering people in Iraq.
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Special Dossier: ISIS attacks and Kurdish Resistance in Kurdistan
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Special Dossier: Genocide against Ezidi Kurds
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Special Dossier: Terror organization Islamic State (IS/ISIS): Contemporary barbarians on war on women and the peoples
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