International

CENTRAL NEWS - On 1 February 2021, Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup in the dead of night, hours before the newly elected parliament was due to convene for the first time. The military alleged voter fraud in the November 2020 election, when its proxy party was trounced by the...

CENTRAL NEWS - Today we remember Sarah Handelmann, a German internationalist friend that joined the ranks of the global Revolution in Kurdistan. She was 34 years old when she was martyred on a turkish airstrike in the Medya Defence Zones, in Bashur Kurdistan in 2019. The resistance war in all...

"Summer in Rojava, 15 hours in the after­noon in the center of HPC-Jin (Hêzên Parastina Civak - Jin, Forces of Civil Defence) on the outskirts of a small town, where everyone knows each other. It’s hard to breathe at 47 de­grees. It is a strong wind, very hot, that moves...

CENTRAL NEWS - In May 2017, 27-year-old British activist Anna Campbell (Helin Qerecox) traveled to Syria to join the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) to fight ISIS. On March 15, 2018, Anna was killed by a missile strike by the Turkish Armed Forces during the massive bombardment of the Kurdish canton...

CENTRAL NEWS - "When I arrived in Besta and saw the sun rising on Mount Herekol, it was wonderful, to say it in one word. You feel like newborn there." Wolfgang Struwe is a revolutionary who has dedicated himself to the freedom struggle of Kurdistan. Wolfgang (63) lives in Hamburg....

CENTRAL NEWS - The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology published in their website and documentary made on the travelling of Catalans activists and politicians in their struggle to recognise the AANES - The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava). In the summer of 2021, a group of Catalan...

BERLIN - The birthday of the Leader of the Freedom-Loving Peoples Abdullah Öcalan was also celebrated in Berlin today. The internationalist youth of the Şehîd Sara Dorşîn youth commune celebrated Abdullah Öcalan's birthday this afternoon. Songs were sung, dances were held and the significance of the day was exchanged. The...

BRISTOL - In Bristol today, the Kurdistan solidarity group "Kurdistan Solidarity Network Bristol" held a banner action demanding freedom for Rêber Apo. On the occasion of today, Rêber Apo's birthday, the activists of the group came together and took a group photo with the banner, which they hung up a...

CENTRAL NEWS - The largely unknown until recently Kurdish city of Kobane managed to attract the attention of the world with its fierce resistance against the invasion of the Islamic State and became an international symbol, compared to the defence of Madrid and Stalingrad. The bravery and heroism of the...

CENTRAL NEWS - Ruben Wagensberg and Eulàlia Reguant, members of the Catalan Parliament, wrote for Kurdistan Report about the recognition of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria by the Catalan Parliament. The article reads as follows: "In 2014, in the Catalan parliament, a deputy from the group known as pro-independence spoke...