Turkey

AĞRI, NORTHERN KURDISTAN Kurdish journalist Aziz Oruç, who had been in custody since 11 December, was sent to prison this morning, after appearing in Court. Journalist Aziz Oruç was detained on 11 December in Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı and called a "terrorist" by the Ministry of Interior. Journalist Oruç was...

ANKARA, TURKEY Cebeci Campus students published a written statement titled 'What is happening at Cebeci Campus,' about the attacks on students at the Ankara University. In the statement, the students drew attention to their lack of safety. The students reminded that university security guards watched as fascists battered and even...

AMED, NORTHERN KURDISTAN Recently, 4 ranking Turkish soldiers were caught in a military vehicle with 80 kilograms of drugs at a search point in Sur, Amed. Thirty people were detained in operations launched after the arrest of the 4 ranking soldiers, including the Lice Central Gendarmerie Commander, for the drug...

ANKARA, TURKEY Ankara Women's Platform held a press conference in Mor Mekan on the police violence against women dancing during a protest on 12 December. Platform member Gonul Kural said that the “Laz Tesis dance is a resistance that reveals the real criminals in many countries such as Chile, Mexico,...

AMED, NORTHERN KURDISTAN The Diyarbakır Governor's Office has officially banned press releases made by the Lawyer's for Freedom Association (ÖHD) about the violations of human rights by Turkey. The Diyarbakır Governor's Office banned the press release ÖHD was to make in the Koşuyolu Park in front of the Humans' Rights...

INTEL According to classified sources, the invading Turkish state is moving chemical substances through Turkey and Northern Kurdistan to the cities of Serakib-Muarratunnuman in southern Idlib. The transportations, being made under supervision of experts, are made in coordination with al-Nusra (Fatah al-Sham) and Ahrar-u Damascus. The checmical substance cylinders reportedly...

INTEL Two agents of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization were captured in a revolutionary operation carried out by the Martyr Sakine Cansiz revenge unit on 4 August 2017 in the Dukan district of Sulaymaniyah in the Federal Kurdistan Region. The investigation process of Erhan Pekçetin and Aydın Günel, who are...

CENTRAL NEWS Questions regarding President Donald Trump's financial interest in Turkey remain unanswered, and are part of a "disturbing" pattern of the president putting his financial interests above those of the nation, according to Senator Chris Van Hollen. Trump’s tolerant approach to Turkey despite a series of provocative foreign policy...

THE PEOPLES' LEADER In the past, the geostrategic position of Kurdistan had wetted appetites, which had made the country a pawn in the struggles over the distribution of resources, wars and state terror. This is still true today and goes back far into early history as Kurdistan had been exposed...

THE PEOPLES' LEADER The name Kurdistan goes back to the Sumerian word "kur," which meant something like mountain more than 5,000 years ago. The suffix "ti" stood for affiliation. The word "kurti" then had the meaning of mountaintribe or mountainpeople. The Luwians, a people settling in western Anatolia about 3,000...