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BEHDINAN - HPG Press Center announced the names of the 2 guerrillas who were martyred in Besta. The HPG statement included the following information: "Our comrades Mîrza and Bengîn, who were on duty in the Kanî Xezale area in the Besta region of Botan at the night of July 3,...

NEWS CENTER - Kurdish Politician-Writer Fuat Kav made comments to the ANF on the occasion of the anniversary of the 14 July Great Death Fast Resistance. Kav said, "It is possible to evaluate the Great Death Fast of 14 July as a milestone for the party, the people of Kurdistan,...

NEWS CENTER - As the Lithuanian capital Vilnius gets ready to host the two-day NATO summit from July 11-12, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his allies continue to exert pressure to bring about Ukraine’s accession to the US-led war alliance. Zelensky, evidently disappointed with the bleak outcome of the much-hyped,...

BEHDINAN - KCK Executive Council Co-chairman Cemil Bayık stated that the 14 July Great Death Fast Resistance proved that the enemy can be defeated by resisting even under the most difficult conditions and said, “This expresses the essence and style of the PKK and the Kurdistan revolution. If progress is...

NEWS CENTER - Eleven years have passed since the revolution in Rojava became a beacon of hope for revolutionary forces worldwide. In times of ongoing crises of the capitalist system, Rojava shows us that social self-management, based on women's liberation, grassroots democracy and social ecology, is possible and that it...

BEHDINAN - HPG Press Center stated the following regarding the 5 guerrillas who were martyred in the Medya Defense Zones: “The year 2017, which represents an important turning point in our history of struggle, was a year in which a selfless resistance was experienced against the invaders in every sense,...

BEHDINAN - Azad Şerger, Thomas Johann S. from Germany was one of the three guerrillas who fell on June 15 while resisting the Turkish occupation in the region of Xakurke in the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). The three guerrillas lost their lives during an action...

NEWS CENTER - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the Cizre region for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, whose health and life were feared for more than two years. The freedom of Abdullah Öcalan was demanded in the demonstrations in nine centers in the cantons of...

NEWS CENTER - On the 15th of February, 1999, the Leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Abdullah Öcalan, was handed over to the Republic of Turkey following a clandestine operation backed by an alliance of secret services directed by their corresponding governments. Disgusted by this outrageous violation of international law,...

NEWS CENTER – Stêrka Ciwan Magazine, which started its publication life in 1994, continues to be the voice of Kurdistan youth in Europe. Stêrka Ciwan Magazine has been meeting with its young readers since 1994 by covering ideological, political, memory, cultural, historical and many other topics. The magazine, which has...