INDEX
• Lift The Ban on PKK! Show Your Support By Joining The Signature Campaign!
• KCK calls on people to vote for Demirtas
• KNK condemns expulsion of Christians from Mosul
• Syriacs call for joint struggle against ISIS savagery
• Woman from Rojava raped by soldiers at border
• KCK calls for solidarity with Rojava and Palestine
• ISIS event in Istanbul taken to parliament
• Thousands join festival to commemorate Fidan Dogan
• Rojava revolution: building autonomy in the Middle East
• Now Turkish government tells women when to laugh
• Erdogan: Military didn’t blame PKK for clash in Ceylanpinar
• Kurds repulse ISIS once more
• Karkamish Camp is ISIS Training Centre says IHD
• YPG Commander: We will not remain silent in the face of ISIS attacks
• Has ISIS issued ‘FGM fatwa’ in Iraq?
• Centre to combat violence against women in Rojava
• From Michael Gunter: The Stupidity Of American Foreign Policy
• Snowden: ISIS created by international powers
• Rojava Report submitted to UN’s Turkey Office
• Intellectuals and socialists announce support for Demirtas
• Sixty-one journalists killed in first half of 2014
• Guerrilla bodies found buried in oil can
Lift The Ban on PKK! Show Your Support By Joining The Signature Campaign!
To delist the pkk, an international campaign to remove the Kurdistan workers’ party from government terrorism lists
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KCK calls on people to vote for Demirtas
Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-presidency has released a statement calling on peoples who want to live in democracy, freedom, peace and brotherhood to vote for Selahattin Demirtas who was nominated by the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) for the presidential election on 10 August.
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KNK condemns expulsion of Christians from Mosul
The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) has issued a statement condemning the savagery and threats of ISIS that have led to minority groups such as Christians and Yezidi and Shabak Kurds fleeing the city of Mosul in northern Iraq and taking refuge in South Kurdistan.
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Syriacs call for joint struggle against ISIS savagery
The Presidency of the Bethnahrin National Council (MUB), an organisation representing Syriac Christians in Europe, has issued an appeal for representatives of the Kurdish and Assyrian peoples to come together and wage a joint struggle against ISIS.
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Woman from Rojava raped by soldiers at border
The hostile approach born by Turkish military forces at the border with West Kurdistan against the people of Rojava has caused a woman from Rojava to be raped by soldiers.
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KCK calls for solidarity with Rojava and Palestine
Releasing a statement to mark the approaching Eid al-Fitr, or “Ramazan Bayrami” in Turkish, Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Executive Council Co-Presidency called on the whole Islamic world to display solidarity with the people of Rojava and Palestine who are welcoming the Ramadan Feast in clash and war environment.
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ISIS event in Istanbul taken to parliament
CHP (Republican People’s Party) Istanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrikulu has submitted a parliamentary question calling for an answer from the Ministry of the Interior regarding the event organized by ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) gangs to mark the Eid in Istanbul.
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Thousands join festival to commemorate Fidan Dogan
The 4th Sev-Der people’s Festival organised in the Elbistan district of Maras was dedicated to Fidan Dogan, who was murdered in Paris with Sakine Cansiz and Leyla Saylemez last year.
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Rojava revolution: building autonomy in the Middle East
( Roarmag.org / By Sardar Saadi ) – Kurdish rebels are establishing self-rule in war-torn Syria, resembling the Zapatista experience and providing a democratic alternative for the region.
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Now Turkish government tells women when to laugh
The Turkish government, which has been criticised for intervening in people’s way of life, has now attempted to determine how and when women should laugh.
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Erdogan: Military didn’t blame PKK for clash in Ceylanpinar
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denied the Turkish General Staff blamed the PKK for the deaths of three soldiers in a clash on the border near Ceylanpinar, claiming they said it was the PYD.
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Kurds repulse ISIS once more
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), which launched attacks on the Kobane region of West Kurdistan (Rojava) at the beginning of July, has suffered heavy losses at the hands of the women and men fighters of Rojava.
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Karkamish Camp is ISIS Training Centre says IHD
The Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD) has issued a report today that says the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is using Turkey as a logistic base, citing claims that a camp near the Karkamish dam is being used as a training centre by this group.
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YPG Commander: We will not remain silent in the face of ISIS attacks
As the “Revenge for Kobanê Martyrs” operation launched by YPG (People’s Defense Units) and YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) forces continues in Kobanê which has been facing attacks by ISIS (Islamic State) gangs for three weeks now, YPG Western Front Commander Serdar Kobanê said they have eliminated the ISIS assault forces targeting the canton.
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Has ISIS issued ‘FGM fatwa’ in Iraq?
Controversy is continuing over the authenticity of a fatwa (edict) about female genital mutilation (FGM) allegedly issued by ISIS in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
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Centre to combat violence against women in Rojava
A women’s centre has been set up in the town on Qamishlo (Qamishli) in West Kurdistan (Rojava) to tackle the problem of violence against women. The centre brings together three communities: the Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians.
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From Michael Gunter: The Stupidity Of American Foreign Policy
Although there can be no doubt that compared to most other countries in the world today and in the past, American foreign policy has been motivated by relative honesty and intelligence, currently there are several specifics in that policy that can only be characterized as sheer stupidity.
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Snowden: ISIS created by international powers
The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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Rojava Report submitted to UN’s Turkey Office
Alevi-Bektashi Federation (ABF) has prepared a report on Rojava following a recent visit of the Federation members to the West Kurdistan territory.
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Intellectuals and socialists announce support for Demirtas
A group of intellectuals, writers, socialists and revolutionaries living in Europe and Turkey have announced that they support Selahattin Demirtas, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in Turkey.
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Sixty-one journalists killed in first half of 2014
61 journalists have died carrying out their work in first half of 2014, according to the International News Safety Institute’s biannual survey of news media casualties, Killing the Messenger.
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Guerrilla bodies found buried in oil can
Yet another savagery has been revealed of the counter-guerrilla organisation JITEM (Gendarmerie Intelligence and Anti-Terror Unit) which has claimed the lives of thousands of Kurds and committed numerous crimes against humanity in North Kurdistan in 90s.
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