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CENTRAL NEWS After the defeat of DAESH by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that finished off the mercenaries taking control of their last strongholds in the village of al-Baghouz, thousands of DAESH mercenaries and their families have surrendered to the SDF. Many are foreign nationals, yet their countries of origin...

CENTRAL NEWS  The 12th annual Sports and Culture Festival, dedicated to Martyr Hasan Kiziler, traditionally organised in Switzerland, this year will be held in the town of Solothurn tomorrow, Saturday 18 May. The festival will be organised with the slogan ‘Let's break isolation, let’s destroy fascism, let’s free our leader and Kurdistan.’...

CENTRAL NEWS The war of Kashmir has claimed 60,000 lives over 6 decades. It is currently being occupied by India, China and Pakistan. In 1947 Britain gave its colonies independence and partitioned the muslim poppulation of the Raj to Pakistan whilst the other religious groups would claim India. The process...

CENTRAL NEWS - The documents published by the Nordic Monitor website included secret statistical data kept by the intelligence department of the Turkish gendarmerie from 1 January 2014, to 30 June 2016, and made clear that the Turkish courts had convicted only 224 people, 37% of the total 607 detainees....

“The feeling, one’s head explodes (the feeling, the top of the skull will simply split, burst open) the feeling that the cell is moving. You wake up, open your eyes: the cell drives; In the afternoon, when the sun comes in, it suddenly stops. One cannot get rid of this...

CENTRAL NEWS -  In the heavy snowstorm we meet two guerrilla fighters. One of them joined the ranks of the PKK from northern Kurdistan, the other is the internationalist Besê Olrika. After a short welcome she leads us on the path. My admiration rises when I hear her Kurdish and...

STRASBOURG - Having monitored the indefinite non-alternating hunger strike in Strasbourg closely since day one, Gulsen answered questions about the state of the activists and said there are some activists who lost over 30 kg in the process. “The hunger strike has continued for over 150 days. Of course it...

PARIS - PKK founding member Sakine Cansız, KNK representative Fidan Doğan and Kurdish Youth Movement member Leyla Şaylemez were murdered in the heart of French capital Paris in January 2013. Reports say an investigation has been launched on the role the Turkish intelligence service MIT played in the massacre. The...

NEWPORT - Writing in Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, activist Sarah Glynn reminds that Imam Şiş has been on hunger strike for 150 days in Newport, Wales. Activist Sarah Glynn recalls in her article that "Imam Şiş has been 150 days without food in Newport, Wales."   Glynn argues that "the...

SWITZERLAND - Swiss Green Party deputy Balthasar Glattli moved a motion to the parliament about the hunger strike resistance led by HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven. The motion underlined that the human rights violations in Turkey have worsened. Glattl said: “The Turkish government is repressing opposition and especially Kurds. Turkey...