Middle East

BEHDINAN - YJA Star Headquarters Command Member Zozan Çewlîg answered journalist Tekoşîn Axîn's questions regarding the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrilla's decision of inaction since the 14 May elections and the Kurdistan-centered earthquakes in February. A short time ago, the YJA Star Command Council held its meeting. Important decisions were taken at this...

NEWS CENTER – PKK Executive Committee made a written statement on the occasion of May 1, World Workers and Laborers' Day. In the PKK statement, “Let's make this May 1 the beginning of the great victory of democracy. As workers and laborers, women and youth, patriotic Kurdish people and all oppressed, revolutionary and...

NEWS CENTER –  KJK Executive Council Member Çiğdem Doğu answered ANF's questions regarding the elections on 14 May. In her written interview with ANF, Doğu stated that the youth should vote for the option that will determine their own destiny and said, “Young people should not waste their freedom energy by...

NEWS CENTER - Two weeks before the May 14 elections, police raids took place in 21 provinces on Tuesday (April 25) as part of an investigation based in Amed (Diyarbakır). Among those detained are journalists, politicians, lawyers, union leaders and artists. 143 people were taken into custody as a result of...

BEHDÎNAN – YJA Star Central Command released the identities of guerrilla fighters Gulçiya Gabar and Pelşîn Newroz in a written statement and stated the following about the fallen guerrilla fighters: “Our comrade Gulçiya Gabar and comrade Pelşîn Newroz, the brave commanders of our society, with a noble person and simple and...

NEWS CENTER – The co-chairman of the KCK Executive Council has released a May Day greeting message, commemorating the May Day fallen and calling on all people to support the Jobs and Freedom Alliance and the Yeşil Sol party. The message states, among other things: With feelings of unity and solidarity, we once...

AMED –  Within the scope of the Amed-based investigation, the operation carried out on the morning of April 25, also raided Halise Aksoy's house in Amed, where the bones of her son, HPG guerrilla Egit İpek, were sent to her by cargo. Aksoy was detained and taken to Diyarbakır Provincial Security Directorate....

NEWS CENTER - The book written by Sakine Cansiz (Sara) about her life and the internal struggles she faced since her childhood is now published also in the Russian language. The first book tells the story of of Cansiz’s life, from the founding of the PKK in 1974 through her arrest...

BEHDINAN - HPG Press Center said, "Even though our forces are in a position of inaction, the fascist AKP-MHP regime continues to attack our forces using the invading Turkish army." HPG stated the following regarding the details of the attacks against Bakure Kurdistan and Medya Defense Areas: “On April 25,...

NEWS CENTER – Yekînîyên Rojhilatê Kurdistanê (YRK) announced that 2 guerrillas were martyred and announced their identity information. YRK said, “A conspiracy was developed against our comrades Kemal Hewramî and Têkoşer Çilçeme, who are on duty, by a group of collaborators who betrayed their own people on January 11, 2023. In this...