International
Utopia V Dystopia – Why its important to believe in the “impossible”
CENTRAL NEWS Historically, revolutionary fights have always been seen in a particularly ambitious or unrealistic light. Each and every revolution in history has had to work with society in a relentless and cohesive way, to convince the deciding power of the world that their idea is worth fighting for. Thus,...
Kongra Star salutes 25 November: “Without women a society cannot thrive”
CENTRAL NEWS Kongra Star Coordination Committee has released a statement to mark 25 November, International Day against Violence against Women. The statement said: "We respectfully remember the Mirabal sisters who were brutally murdered in the Dominican Republic on 25 November 1960 in the struggle against the Trujillo dictatorship. In the...
TJK-E launches ‘100 reason to Prosecute the Dictator’ campaign
CENTRAL NEWS '100 reasons to prosecute the dictator' is the name of the campaign launched by the Kurdish Women’s Movement in Europe (Tevgera Jinên Kurd li Ewropayê, TJK-E) today, International Day against Violence against Women. Now the campaign takes a new step in which "we will fight creatively and resolutely for...
Freedom for Öcalan initiative call for the Internationalist Long March 2021 in 11 languages
CENTRAL NEWS The annual Internationalist Long March just published their call for the next demonstration set to take place next year, from Frankfurt to Strasbourg. The information released on their website was posted in the languages Deustch, Español, Italiano, Français, Català, Português, Euskera, Čeština, Ελληνικά, العربية. The call is as follows: “The awakening of society in Kurdistan...
The Three Butterflies and the establishment of a woman-central life
CENTRAL NEWS Matria, Minerva and María Teresa Mirabal—three sisters from a middle class family, all married with children—may not have seemed the most likely revolutionaries. But living under the Dominican Republic’s brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo in the late 1950s, the Mirabal sisters took their lives into their own hands and...
Solothurn youth protest KDP-Iraq aggression towards Shengal
SOLOTHURN, SWITZERLAND Following a call for uninterrupted action against the KDP-Iraq threats against the autonomous region of Shengal, the Kurdish youth in Europe have been protesting in countless cities. The call, made by the European Kurdish youth movements, Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger and Jinên Ciwan ên Têkoşer, was answered in Solothurn...
Global community reacts to KDP’s Shengal threat: “let’s defend the people of Shengal!”
BİELEFELD, GERMANY Bielefeld Kurdistan Center held a rally on Tuesday evening to protest the KDP's preparations for an attack with the Iraqi state against the autonomous Shengal region. The rally started at 17:00 at the Bielefeld central train station, and was participated and organnised by SMJÊ, TCŞ, TEKO-JIN, YXK, JXK,...
“We will fight together until every woman is free!”
MAINZ, GERMANY Pictures of women who were raped, murdered or subjected to physical violence were exhibited along with their stories, on different buildings in the Mainz city center. While the young women carrying out the action stated the purpose of the exhibition was to denounce the male-dominated mentality and state...
All roads in Switzerland point at the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle
BASEL, SWITZERLAND Women activists changed the names of streets in Basel city to the names of women martyrs of the Kurdistan Freedom Struggle. In addition, the posters of the "100 reasons for the trial of the dictator, 100,000 signatures" campaign launched by TJK-E to prosecute Erdogan, who is the main...
Women’s organisation holds silent protest in front of Freiburg theater
FREİBURG, GERMANY Women activists staged a protest in front of the Freiburg theater, where they hung a banner reading: “See the reality and be aware of what is fraudulently portrayed as real. Be courageous, seek yourself, find the warrior woman in you.” The women displayed pictures of women victims of...
Copyright © Nûçe Ciwan 2021. All Rights Reserved.