Wednesday, 26 May, 2021 , 17:58theguardian.com | By Bethan McKernan | 25 May 2021
Sedat Peker accuses senior government figures of crimes including murder, rape, corruption and drug trafficking
Friday, 21 May, 2021 , 17:41dckurd.org | May 19, 2021
Joint initiative on Iran’s future by the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI) and Program on Human Rights and Peace-building at Columbia University
Friday, 21 May, 2021 , 17:18dckurd.org | May 18, 2021
A weekly brief of events that occurred in the Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
Tuesday, 11 May, 2021 , 17:08ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Evin Abrishami, a Labour Party candidate in Donnington, was elected in the 2021 Oxford City Council election that was held on Thursday in the southern English city.
Tuesday, 27 April, 2021 , 17:09Bianet.org - İstanbul - BIA News Desk
Monday, 26 April, 2021 , 16:07Theguardian.com
Current and former HDP members may face life sentences in what critics call a ‘revenge trial’
Turkey has put 108 Kurdish politicians on trial in what critics say is politically motivated “revenge” for their alleged roles in deadly protests in 2014 sparked by the Isis takeover of the Syrian border town of Kobani.
Wednesday, 21 April, 2021 , 15:48Reuters.com
Turkey's Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden's ambassador in Ankara to a meeting to protest contacts between two Swedish ministers and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which Ankara considers a terrorist group, Turkish diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 , 16:23Theguardian.com
Journalist and author was jailed after writing pieces critical of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 , 15:55Henri J. Barkey is the Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Monday, 12 April, 2021 , 17:47Spiegel.de | By Sebnem Arsu, Maximilian Popp und Anna-Sophie Schneider
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is doing what he can to hold on to power – and is following his right-wing extremist coalition partner back to the confrontational style of politics the country saw in the 1990s. Opposition activists are concerned for their safety.
