Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms ...
Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade insurgency with Turkey
Kurdish militant leader Abdallah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and ...
VOA Kurdish: In Kobani, people protest Alevi massacres, Turkish bombings
In Kobani, Syria, people protested the massacres of Alevi on the Syrian coast, coinciding with Turkish bombings of the ...
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Kurdish Women Journalists Who Work Under Constant Threat Have Lessons to Share
This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...
Syrian Kurds celebrate deal with Damascus as coastal residents remain wary after violence
In northeast Syria, revelers took to the streets after the announcement of a breakthrough deal between the central government ...
Kurdish football team apologizes to J-League club over flag incident
A Kurdish amateur football club in Japan has apologized to J-League first division team Urawa Reds for raising their team ...
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People of the World as the Enforcers of International Law: Take Aways from the Rojava Tribunal
In this long read op-ed by Shadi Sadr a human rights lawyer and PhD candidate at Leiden University, for JURIST, Sadr discusses the Rojava Tribunal, a session of the Permanent People's Tribunal, ...
Kurdish militant leader jailed by Turkey tells his movement to disarm and dissolve
Abdullah Ocalan’s appeal raised the prospect of an end to a conflict between Turkey and the PKK that since the 1980s has ...