International

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...

CENTRAL NEWS The book 'The anarchist challenge in Rojava' will be presented on Friday at Libreria Calusca in Milan. The book and the Rojava Revolution will be presented by Norma Santi and Salvo Vaccaro (the editors of the book), while journalist Debbie Bookchin sent a video message to the conference...

MÖNCHENGLADBACH Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger NRW organized a Culture and Sports Festival yesterday in Mönchengladbach, Germany to commemorate the Martyrs of May. Hundreds of Kurdistanis, as well as internationalists,  attended the festival. At the festival, YXK opened a booth and displayed some of the latest publications and informed about their work....

UPPSALA  The Feminist Initiative invited the Uppsala Democratic Kurdish Community Center to a member meeting to discuss the experiences and teachings of the women's movement in Kurdistan. The three women members of the association, who are responsible for female and exterior relations, made detailed explanations about the hunger strike and...

The 6th Sara Women Festival will take place in Zurich on Sunday 16 June. Sara was the codename of Sakine Cansız. The Festival is dedicated to Sakine Cansız, a founding member of the PKK who was murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013 together with two other Kurdish women politicians,...

MAINZ The “Ankaras Puppets on Germany Tour” campaign launched by MAINZ - YXK to expose the cooperation of Turkish and German states continued with a panel yesterday in Mainz. The panel was attended by Nilüfer Koç from KNK and Murat Yılmaz from the leftist, Die Linke. Speakers on the panel...

Today, on the occasion of the anniversary, we publish stories of the ten Kurdish partisans in resistance and commemorate the fallen Internationalists of the PKK. Their story “Heroes of the Castle Arnun” was first published in the magazine Serxwebun, in Kurdish and Turkish and in the German solidarity magazine “Kurdistan...