Desks empty in Kurdistan as families boycott assimilation in schools
17:32 28/09/2015As the new school year began in Turkey today, families across Northern Kurdistan (in Turkey) joined a school boycott to demand the right to education in their native languages.
French occupiers declare autonomy in solidarity with Kurdistan
17:01 28/09/2015The ZAD (Defending Zone) occupation near the city of Nantes, France has declared autonomy in solidarity with Kurdistan.
Slain ambulance driver’s mother: it was the state
16:29 28/09/2015After Turkish police killed ambulance driver Şeyhmuz Dursun in the largely Kurdish district of Beytüşşebap, Şeyhmuz’s mother declared at his funeral: “the whole town saw the police kill my ...
Ekin Wan honored at her gravesite
15:57 28/09/2015Free Women’s Units (YJA STAR) guerrilla Keser Eltürk (Ekin Wan) was massacred by torture in the district of Varto. Women marched for Ekin Wan and honored her at her gravesite, led by Congress of ...
2 youth shot by police die in hospital
14:59 28/09/2015Two youth shot by police during the ongoing attacks on Kurdish cities in the province of Diyarbakır died in hospital today.
Many children wounded, 1 child dead in Bismil
14:48 28/09/2015The Turkish state declared a curfew in the district of Bismil yesterday. Police and soldiers attacked the Avaşin Neighborhood, and a bomb fell on a house. A child was killed; her mother and four ...
5 children wounded in Diyarbakır police attack
14:46 28/09/2015Five children were wounded as Turkish police attempted to enter the Sur district of the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakır.
Women are the dynamic of self-defense
14:27 28/09/2015Free Women’s Units’ (YJA STAR) commander Nujiyan Amed called attention to the importance of self-defense for Kurdish society and women.
Rojava’s new education model multilingual, multicultural
15:51 26/09/2015The excitement of the new school year is beginning in Cizîr, in the Rojava Cantons. Qamişlo Language and Education Academy member Pȇyman Perî said that educators, most of them women, have worked ...
Turkish forces kill 4 in town of Beytüşşebap
13:13 26/09/2015Turkish security forces killed four civilians as they devastated the largely Kurdish town of Beytüşşebap yesterday.
2 women, a grave and a state that desecrates the dead
11:35 26/09/2015On the first day of Eid al-Adha, Ayşe and Besna Yorga set out, as is traditional on Eid, for the graveyard where their loved one is buried. But this time, it was to join a vigil to stop the grave ...
241 women and children rescued from Boko Haram
11:22 26/09/2015The Nigerian forces rescued 241 women and children from the camps controlled by Boko Haram.
HDP representative detained
11:10 26/09/2015Aycan İrmez, a Parliamentary representative from Turkey’s Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was detained on Thursday while participating in an anti-war vigil despite her Parliamentary immunity.
Margaret Owen: ‘Turkey breached international law in Cizre’
15:12 23/09/2015Human rights lawyer Margaret Owen, reporting on the nine-day state siege of the Kurdish town of Cizre, has confirmed that Turkey violated international law in its attack on the city.
World March of Women calls for solidarity with refugees, Kurdish women
13:17 23/09/2015The World March of Women, meeting in Quebec recently, has called for solidarity with refugees and all women struggling for freedom around the world.
Women take up self-defense against assaults
12:13 23/09/2015As the al-Nusra Front and Daesh continue to assault Rojava, women are taking self-defense courses to resist the attacks.
Women of Dirbêsîyê: ‘We stand by the people’s resistance’
12:11 23/09/2015As the AKP implements a new policy of war in Kurdistan, women of the Rojava city of Dirbêsîyê have not remained silent. They stated that they would stand in solidarity with the Kurdish people ...
Women journalists: ‘Peace journalism must be strengthened’
11:51 23/09/2015Women journalists who came to Cizre to do journalism called attention to “peace journalism” and called on mainstream media journalists to practice this form of journalism.
Women activists head to Silopi
14:23 22/09/2015Turkey’s women’s anti-war group Women’s Initiative for Peace, after visiting the besieged Kurdish town of Cizre, have headed to the nearby town of Silopi. Women co-mayors described the ...
Women discuss self-government at Cizre neighborhood forum
13:49 22/09/2015Women anti-war activists joined the women of the besieged Kurdish town of Cizre for a forum, where they discussed self-government and the effects of war in women.