Europe

ROME - Internationalist YPG fighter Lorenzo Orsetti (Tekoser Piling) lost his life in Baghouz on March 18 during the battle against ISIS gangs. His body reached his hometown Florence on June 15 and a funeral was held on June 24. There have been several events held in memory of the...

CENTRAL NEWS Communist Party France (CPF) member Senator Laurence Cohen wrote a letter to Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and pointed out that the freezing of CDK-F administrators’ bank accounts coincided with the minister’s visit to Turkey. Cohen said the bank accounts of CDK-F administrators were frozen under the guise...

The European Democratic Kurdish Society Congress (KCDK-E) issued a written statement today regarding the invasion attacks carried out by the Turkish state in South Kurdistan. "The AKP-MHP fascist government continues its anti-Kurdish policies recklessly and expands its attacks", said the KCDK-E. The statement added: "The Turkish state realizes its ambitions...

ZURICH Zurich youth gather today, to honour the memory of Sehid Tekoser (Orso). The youth put up banners outside Rheinmetall AG, who are the profiteers of war and those responsible for Orsos martyrdom. Under the initiative #FightForRojava the youth call for mass organisation against massacre companies like Rheinmetall.

A panel was held at the Unison headquarter in London, with the slogan “Time to De-list the PKK: Respect International Law!” The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is not a terrorist organisation, according to the March 2019 decision by Belgium’s Court of Appeal, applying principles of international law. The event was...

FLORENCE The funeral of YPG's internationalist fighter Tekoşer Piling, (Lorenzo Orsetti), who was martyred in Baxoz on March 18 during the battle against ISIS gangs, reached Florence, his birthplace on 15 June. For the anarchist fighter who was martyred at the age of 30, events were planned all day long...

SOLOTHURN In the Swiss canton of Solothurn, Tevgera Ciwanên Soreşger activists distributed thousands of cards and took action to raise awareness to the invasion by the Turkish state in Efrîn. They prepared cards asking in German: "in Efrîn, occupied by the Turkish state, your silence killing people," "Erdogan gangs using...

MARSIELLES Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger members of the French city of Marseille organized action against the invasion of the invading Turkish state against Bashure Kurdistan and for the freedom of Peoples' Leader Abdullah Öcalan. Young people who met on the historical stairs of the station in the city opened a PKK...

Democratic Kurdish Society Congress Europe (KCDK-E) Co-presidential Council issued a written statement and called for a boycott of Turkish tourism. “Don’t holiday in Turkey, don’t be a party to war,” said the statement and continued: “The Turkish state has been waging a bloody war against Kurds for almost 40 years,...

The European Court of Human Rights has found Turkey guilty in the Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) case. The case referred to the arrest en masse of hundreds of elected politicians, activists, human rights defenders in 2009. The applicants disclosed that they did not have the opportunity to effectively challenge the...